Kathi Appelt is the author of the Newbery Honoree, National Book Award finalist, PEN USA Literary Award–winning, and bestselling THE UNDERNEATH as well as the National Book Award finalist THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP, KEEPER, and many picture books including COUNTING CROWS. She has two grown children and lives in Texas with her husband.

Books by Kathi Appelt

Angel Thieves

by Kathi Appelt - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Young Adult 13+

Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids

by Elissa Brent Weissman, Kwame Alexander, Tom Angleberger, Kathi Appelt, Ashley Bryan, Tim Federle, Candace Fleming, Marla Frazee, Chris Gall, Alex Gino, Chris Grabenstein, Gordon Korman, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Thanhha Lai, Peter Lerangis, Gail Carson Levine, Grace Lin, Yuyi Morales, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, R. J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Dan Santat, Brian Selznick, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Rita Williams-Garcia - Careers, Children's 8-12, Nonfiction

Maybe a Fox

by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee - Children's 10+, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Social Issues

Counting Crows

written by Kathi Appelt with illustrations by 2 - Children's, Picture

Mogie: The Heart of the House

Written by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by Marc Rosenthal - Nonfiction, Pets, Picture

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

by Kathi Appelt - Youth Fiction

Keeper

written by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by August Hall - Mythology