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KATE COSGROVE
Illustrator Highlight
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From MY POLLINATOR GARDEN
(by Jordan Zwetchkenbaum, Holiday House, 2025)
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When Kate Cosgrove was nine years old, a funny and energetic illustrator visited her classroom for ‘Young Authors Week.’ From that moment, Kate knew she wanted to be an illustrator, too. Fast forward: she is now the #1 NYT-bestselling illustrator of A Day with No Words (by Tiffany Hammond). Kate was born into a family where everyone makes something: art, music, food, clothing, noise, a mess. She herself likes to make messes and art. “I expect to keep doing both until I draw my last breath,” Kate says. “I’m a lucky girl.” And we are equally lucky and honored that Kate has joined the agency!
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From A DAY WITHOUT WORDS
(by Tiffany Hammond—originally published by Wheat Penny Press—
upcoming by Bloomsbury, 2025)
a #1 NYT bestseller
 Booklist
“…Cosgrove’s art, throughout, does an amazing job of transporting readers… employing various color tones, metaphoric images, and “camera” angles to reflect the deep expressiveness contained in every page….”
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From JUST FLOWERS
(by Erin Dealey, Sleeping Bear Press, 2024)
Winner of the 2025 Growing Good Kids Book Award
from Junior Master Gardener and The American Horticultural Society
“Lovely. Just lovely.” —Betsy Bird (Fuse8)
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Kate has received many awards for her artwork, including the Dolly Gray Literature Award, a Highlights Foundation Scholarship, and juried selection for the 41st, 43rd, 44th and 45th Original Art Annual Exhibitions along with the 62nd Bologna Children’s Book Fair. She uses mixed media to develop her colorful, whimsical, and highly emotional illustrations, usually starting with paper and mechanical pencils because they smudge in interesting ways. Then, she imports the scanned drawings and redraws a digital version of the art using colors. She’s also been known to use scans of fine art painting, crayon, pencil, etc, for a hand-drawn feel.
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From THE DIRT BOOK:
POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS THAT LIVE BENEATH OUR FEET
(by David L. Harrison, Holiday House, 2023)
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List
Shelf Awareness
“…There is a plethora of knowledge to absorb from Cosgrove’s art, including such varied information as the patterns on the tortoise shell and the delicate webbing on the bumblebee’s wings….”
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Kate has an art degree from Michigan State University. She is happy that she doesn’t have to grow up and can spend many hours of her days in her imagination—with picture books, middle grade novels, comic art, and many, many stories—and doing what she loves the most… drawing!
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From A TREE IS A COMMUNITY
(by David L. Harrison, Books for a Better Earth, Holiday House, 2024)
Kirkus
“…bustling, populous illustrations…”
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