Catherine "Kate" Klise is an American

United States

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 author. She has authored several humorous children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 titles in collaboration with her sister, illustrator M. Sarah Klise. Their Regarding series is presented in a scrapbook

Scrapbooking

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 style format, with letters, journal entries, and related ephemera telling the story. She is also known for her children's picture books and the 43 Old Cemetery Road series.

Biography

Kate Klise was the fourth of six children born to educational film producer Thomas and Marjorie Klise. Raised in Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

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, she attended Marquette University

Marquette University

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 and has written articles for People magazine. She currently resides near Norwood, Missouri

Norwood, Missouri

Norwood is a city in Wright County, Missouri, United States. The population was 665 at the 2010 census. The city is also notable for its dog population, which more than doubles that of the human population at 1,891 canines, mainly domesticated.-Geography:...

 on a farm with a pond, where she has many friends who are kind, generous, and always thoughtful. "My nicest characters always resemble them," said Kate Klise. She is a vegetarian, who loves tomato sandwiches. .

Published works

• Regarding the Fountain
  Regarding the Fountain
  Regarding the Fountain is a children's novel by Kate Klise, first published in 1998.It is unusual in the way that it tells the entire story through notes, memos, letters, and other documents. The story itself takes place in Dry Creek, Missouri. Backstory unfolds as the reader progresses; but thirty...
  
  (1998) ISBN 0613178491
• Letters From Camp (1999)
• Trial by Journal (2001)
• Regarding the Sink (2004) ISBN 0152055444
• Shall I Knit You a Hat? (2004)
• Deliver Us From Normal (2005)
• Regarding the Trees (2005) ISBN 0152060901
• Why Do You Cry? (2006)
• Far From Normal (2006)
• Regarding the Bathrooms (2006) ISBN 0152051643
• Imagine Harry (2007)
• Regarding the Bees (2007)
• Little Rabbit and the Night Mare (2008)
• 43 Old Cemetery Road: Book One: Dying To Meet You (2009)
• Little Rabbit and The Meanest Mother on Earth (2009)
• 43 Old Cemetery Road: Book Two: Over My Dead Body (2009)
• Stand Straight, Ella Kate (2010)
• 43 Old Cemetery Road: Book Three: Till Death Do Us Bark (2011)

External links

• Kate Klise and Sarah Klise official website