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Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Katie has walked by all these schools of fine art. She has attended none of them. She was always creative but never thought she could earn a living as an artist. She could write though, so after graduating from Boston University Katie went into public relations and advertising. After getting fired six or seven times, Katie figured she should be working for myself. Plus, she hated wearing panty hose. Katie wrote and illustrated picture books—really bad ones—for decades. Then in 1996, she attended the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrator's national conference and got a clue. Katie gets inspiration from life, her kids, and the world. Her daughter had just graduated from kindergarten when she wrote Kindergarten Rocks! That must’ve been pretty good inspiration, since the Department of Education in Georgia bought 80,000 copies to give to every incoming kindergartner in the state. All Katie’s picture books, Who Hops?, I Hate to Go to Bed!, Who Hoots?, Scared Stiff, Party Animals, Mabel the Tooth Fairy and How She Got Her Job, and Kindergarten Rocks! have been endorsed and recommended by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Not only that, but they've also won some very cool awards. Katie’s first novel, The Curse of Addy McMahon, comes out from Greenwillow in May, 2008. |
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Curse of Addy McMahon "I just know I'm cursed. First of all, it's not humanly possible to do sixth grade math. My mother's totally gross boyfriend is about to move into our guest room (did I mention he's totally G-ROSS?), and to top it all, my arch-enemy, Marsha Pittel, walked into Lovely Ladies Lingerie just as my mom was asking the saleslady for a training bra. And my mom is NOT the one in training." If you can believe it, Addy's life gets even more complicated as she learns you can't always blame a curse for the rotten things in your life. Especially when you do something really mean that embarrases your best friend, who then rejects you and chooses your absolutely worse arch-enemy as her new BF. Or, even though you're totally famous for your graphic interviews, when your mother's boyfriend says you can't write or draw you decide to create a new comic which, even though the idea was to get the G-ROSS boyfriend to run screaming from the house, was not meant to ruin everything for your mom. |
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Kindergarten Rocks! Dexter is ready for kindergarten. Sort of. Well, actually, he's maybe kind of a little bit scared, perhaps even terrified, one might say. Because what if he gets lost? Or, what if the teacher is mean? Or, he misses his mom or dad? Or, worst of all, he loses his most important ally, Rufus? With the same warmth, exuberance, and sly wit that have made her a favorite of booksellers and children, Katie Davis tackles a problem every kid—and parent—has to face sooner or later: first-day fears. And she shows that it's okay to be scared, but that, as Dexter's older sister Jessie says, "Kindergarten rocks!" |
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Mabel the Tooth Fairy and How She Got Her Job Mabel, the tooth fairy, hated brushing, and she hated flossing, and, well, you can imagine what happened to her choppers. It was disgusting. But then she came up with a plan to get her smile back .... With all the charm and sly humor that has made her a favorite of booksellers and librarians, Katie Davis gives us the story the fairy tales censor. It will have you laughing so hard your teeth will fall out! (Just be sure to leave them under your pillow.) |
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Party Animals Everyone who is anyone in the barnyard is going to be at the party. But one blue ant didn't get his invitation. No wonder he's blue! How could his friends have forgotten him? Or have they? ... You are cordially invited to join this bunch of animals for the wildest shindig of the year. It won't be over till the cows come home! |
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Scared Stiff The feisty little girl from I Hate to Go to Bed! is back--and scared stiff! And who wouldn't be? Snakes in her closet ... monsters in the bushes ... and you don't even want to know what else! What’s a kid to do? Well, this girl has a plan—one that will make kids and parents alike burst out in laughter as she faces her fears and discovers they’re not as bad as she thought. Scared Stiff is Katie Davis doing what she does best—taking an experience familiar to children and giving it an irresistible twist. |
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Who Hoots? Dogs don't hoot. Pigs don't hoot. Horses don't hoot. Owls don't hoot. Owls don't hoot? YES THEY DO! And so begins this funny follow-up to the popular Who Hops? An irresistible repetitive text and bold, bright images of animals combine in a book that is sure to have preschoolers hooting (and buzzing and quacking and...) loudly! |
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I Hate to Go to Bed Brussels sprouts—yuck! The dentist—blech! And worst of all ... bedtime! That can really ruin a kid’s day. You have to stop playing and brush your teeth and put on your pj’s, and you just know your parents are going to have a big party as soon as you’re asleep. Aren’t they? The feisty girl in this book is determined to find out! Katie Davis takes a fresh, funny look at an experience that is familiar to children and, of course, their sleepy parents. The surprise ending, with its playful resolution, will banish the bedtime blues and is sure to have youngsters scrambling to get to sleep! |
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Who Hops? Frogs hop. Rabbits hop. Kangaroos hop. Cows hop. Cows hop?! No they don't, of course, and so begins the simple repetitive pattern of this clever book. From the cow that doesn't hop to the giraffe that doesn't crawl, animals on brightly colored page after page offer up giggles galore and a delightfully silly look at the way some creatures do—and don't—get around. When the time comes to guess who hops and flies and slithers and swims and crawls, observant young readers just might know the answer! Awards |
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