Patkau, Karen: - Illustrator, author, designer, and visual artist Karen Patkau's distinctive art can be found in more than twenty picture books for children, many of them about animals and ecosystems. She is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal for Don't Eat Spiders, and One Watermelon Seed was a Bank Street Best Book. A Good Trade was a White Ravens Choice, a Bank Street Best Book, and a nominee for the OLA Blue Spruce Award and the Kentucky Bluegrass Award, among others. Karen's most recent books include Triceratops Stomp and A Family for Faru.