Kathi Appelt (born July 6, 1954)[1] is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults.[2] She won the annual PEN USA award for Children's Literature recognizing The Underneath (2008).[3]

Kathi Appelt
Appelt at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born	July 6, 1954 Fayetteville, North Carolina
Occupation	Writer, writing teacher
Nationality	American
Period	1990s–present
Genre	Children's literature, picture books, non-fiction
Website
kathiappelt.com

Biography

Kathi Appelt was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,[1] and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University and lives in College Station, Texas.^{[citation needed]}

Appelt is the author of more than 30 books. She writes novels, picture books, poetry, and nonfiction for children and young adults.^{[citation needed]} Her books have been translated into several languages: Spanish, Chinese, French, and Swedish.^{[citation needed]}

Her first novel was The Underneath, illustrated by David Small and published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. It features a cat and dog who live mainly beneath an old house in the Louisiana–Texas bayou. For that work she received the annual Children's Literature award from PEN Center USA[3] and she was also a runner-up for the National Book Award (National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist)[4] and the American Library Association Newbery Medal (Newbery Honor Book).[5]

Her papers are held in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (unprocessed manuscripts collection, 1985–2005).[6]

Selected works

• The Underneath, illustrated by David Small (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
• Brand-New Baby Blues, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (HarperCollins, 2009)
• Keeper, illus. August Hall (Atheneum Books, 2010)
• Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, co-authored by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer (HarperCollins, 2001; Purple House Press 2019)
• Max Attacks, illus. Penelope Dullaghan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)

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References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kathi Appelt.

• Official website
• Kathi Appelt at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kathi Appelt at Library of Congress Authorities, with 41 catalog records