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Karen Patkau

KAREN PATKAU has been writing and illustrating picture books, with a focus on nature and non-fiction, for more than thirty years. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal for her first book, Don’t Eat Spiders by Robert Heidbreder, and since then her titles have appeared on lists including Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award finalists, Green Book Festival Award finalists, Ontario Library Association Best Bets and White Ravens selections. Karen has also illustrated Forest: A See to Learn Book. She lives in Toronto.

 

Books by Karen Patkau

One Hungry Heron

by (author) Carolyn Beck
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
3 to 6
Grades
p to 1

A Flower is a Friend

by (author) Frieda Wishinsky
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
3 to 6
Grades
p to k

Unstoppable

Women With Disabilities

by (author) Helen Wolfe
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
9 to 12
Grades
4 to 7

A Family for Faru

by (author) Anitha Rao-Robinson
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
4 to 7
Grades
k to 2

Lake: A See to Learn Book

by (author) Kate Moss Gamblin
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
4 to 7
Grades
p to 2

A Good Trade

by (author) Alma Fullerton
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
4 to 8
Grades
k to 3

Triceratops Stomp

by (author) Karen Patkau

Ages
1 to 3
Grades
p

See to Learn: Forest

A See to Learn Book

by (author) Kate Moss Gamblin
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
4 to 7
Grades
k to 2

Forest: A See to Learn Book

A See to Learn Book

by (author) Kate Moss Gamblin
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
4 to 7
Grades
k to 2

Who Needs a Reef?

A Coral Ecosystem

by (author) Karen Patkau

Resources
Resources
Ages
7 to 10
Grades
2 to 5

Who Needs a Prairie?

A Grassland Ecosystem

by (author) Karen Patkau

Resources
Resources
Ages
7 to 10
Grades
2 to 5

Who Needs a Desert?

A Desert Ecosystem

by (author) Karen Patkau

Resources
Resources
Ages
7 to 10
Grades
2 to 5

Who Needs a Jungle?

by (author) Karen Patkau

Ages
7 to 10
Grades
2 to 5

Who Needs an Iceberg?

An Arctic Ecosystem

by (author) Karen Patkau

Ages
7 to 10
Grades
2 to 5

Who Needs a Swamp?

A Wetland Ecosystem

by (author) Karen Patkau

Ages
7 to 10
Grades
2 to 5

Creatures Great and Small

by (author) Karen Patkau

Ages
6 to 9
Grades
1 to 4

One Watermelon Seed

by (author) Celia Barker Lottridge
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
3 to 7
Grades
1 to 2

Sir Cassie to the Rescue

by (author) Linda Smith
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
0 to 7
Grades
p to 2

Python Play

And Other Recipes for Fun

by (author) Robert Heidbreder
illustrated by Karen Patkau

Ages
8 to 9
Grades
3 to 4