Katherine Roy

Katherine Roy loves science, history, and big adventures, and am endlessly fascinated by the way things live.  She is the award-winning author and illustrator of How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands. In addition to illustrating Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Katherine illustrated the Expeditioners series by S. S. Taylor and Red Rover by author Richard Ho. She lives in Oregon with her husband and son. For more information about Katherine, visit katherineroy.com.

Katherine's Process & Artifacts

Listen to Katherine explain how she researched and illustrated Otis and Will Discover the Deep. In particular she addresses:

• Her research process and how she created reference photos
• How her research allowed her to accurately depict the time period
• Design decisions such as the use of varying perspectives
• Representing deep sea animals
• The fabulous double gatefold 

Katherine's Books

Other Interviews and Resources about Katherine

• Katherine's Video Gallery
• Into the Wild with Katherine Roy (2017)
• Picturebooking (2017)
  
• All the Wonders (2017)