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Kate Banks



Kate Banks has written many books for children, among them Maxs Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She grew up in Maine, where she and her two sisters and brother spent a lot of time outdoors, and where Banks developed an early love of reading.

Banks attended Wellesley College and received her master's in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years but now lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons, Peter Anton and Maximilian.
 

 
New and upcoming books
October 2024

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Into the Ether
 
Novels
   Walk Softly, Rachel (1987)
   Dillon Dillon (2002)
   Friends of the Heart / Amici Del Cuore (2005)
   Lenny's Space (2007)
   The Eraserheads (2010)
   The Magician's Apprentice (2012)
   Boy's Best Friend (2015) (with Rupert Sheldrake)
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Collections
   Into the Ether (poems) (2024)
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