Cosgrove, Kate: - Kate Cosgrove is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling book A Day with No Words, winner of the 2024 Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award. Kate's book illustrations juried into The 41st and 43rd Original Art Annual Exhibition in New York City. Her other notable picture books include And the Bullfrogs Sing: A Life Cycle, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and a Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award Honors book. Kate is usually hiding in her art studio with pencil-smudged fingers and a smelly dog named Stanley.