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for Disney Press which contained Disney characters.
Her husband, Michael Grant, helped her write many
of her 150 books. Her famous series Animorphs, a
science fiction series, has been turned into a Nick-
elodeon television show. Besides these, she has also
written many realistic fiction novels especially about
girls in high school. She began her writing career by
producing The Midas Touch (1988), under the name
Katherine Kendall. From there she changed her ca-
reer into the world of children’s literature.
Some books written by her are Jack Rabbit
Katherene Applegate and the Beanstalk (1997), The Buffalo Storm (2007),
Sometimes You Fly (2018), Ivan: A Gorilla's True
Katherine Applegate was born on Story (2020) etc. Katherine Applegate also wrote
October 9, 1956, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, many series like: Animorphs series, Everworld series,
United States. She grew up in Grand Rap- Remnants series, Making Out, Ivan & Friends series,
ids, a large city in Michigan. She went to the Doggo and Pupper series and many more.
University of Texas in Austin and graduated She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her
from college in 1979. children's novel The One and Only Ivan. She won the
Katherine Applegate used to work Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 and
several years in restaurants and flower Golden Kite Award for best fiction for Home of the
delivery trades. She was not happy doing Brave.
the job and so she thought that she and My favorite book by the author is The One
her husband should become authors. After and Only Ivan because it has interesting characters
some years, she finally planned to write and themes of friendship, love, responsibility, and
something. most importantly, animal rights. Although this book
One day, Katherine was reading the has emotional and sad parts like Stella’s death, it also
newspaper and she saw the headline “A Go- has fun and hilarious moments such as the ‘glass
rilla Sulks in a Mall as His Future Is Debat- incident.’ It made me laugh my heart out. I like this
ed.” When she saw the article, she knew that book because the character Ivan, who has been living
she wanted to tell Ivan's story. The other in the Big Top Mall, inspired me to never give up.
characters in the book, like Stella, Ruby and
Bob, came from her imagination. Source: .wikipedia.org,wiki.kidzsearch.com, Britan-
Katherine Applegate is an American young nica kids
adult and children's writer. She wrote lots
of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure - Ayesha Zaffar
novels. She wrote many children’s novels
