Kate Cosgrove is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of A Day With No Words by Tiffany Hammond.

Kate has received many awards and honors for her artwork, including a Dolly Gray Literature Award, a Highlights Foundation Scholarship, and juried selection for the 41st, 43rd, 44th and 45th Original Art Annual Exhibitions in New York City, and the 62nd Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Kate illustrated And the Bullfrogs Sing, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and a Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award Honors book, The Dirt Book: Poems about Animals that Live Beneath Our Feet, which was a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year and was selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, and A Tree Is a Community, all by David. L. Harrison. Her latest book by Author Jordan Zwetchkenbaum, My Pollinator Garden, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. 

With pencil-smudge fingers, Kate is usually hiding-out with a few pet earthworms, in her slightly-haunted art studio.