Up and Down With Kate

by Kay Chorao

Kate, the littlest elephant in her family, tries her hardest to be good all the time, but sometimes it just doesn't work and she suddenly finds herself in some type of trouble, in a charming easy reader with full-color illustrations.

Genres: Picture Books

48 pages, Hardcover

First published June 3, 2002

About the author

Kay Chorao is a children's writer and illustrator.

She was born Ann McKay Sproat in Elkhart, Indiana, United States, into a middle-class, suburban family. She loved and was encouraged to draw at a young age. She attended Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH. Chorao went to Wheaton College, where in 1958 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in art history. After that, Chorao pursued her graduate study at Chelsea School of Art from 1958 to 1959.

Chorao got married and had three sons before moving to New York with her family. From 1966 to 1968, she studied book illustration at School of Visual Arts in New York.

Besides writing self-illustrated children's books, Chorao has been the illustrator for many books by Jane Yolen, Judith Viorst, Jan Wahl, and Marjorie Sharmat.

Reviews

[Kathryn]

Meh. For easy readers, I recommend Cynthia Rylant's work, such as the Mr Putter and Tabby series or Henry and Mudge. This one just wasn't that involving and, despite the fact that my nickname is Kate and that I love elephants, I just couldn't find our heroine endearing.