Throughout her career Karen Katz has been a fabric artist and quilter, a costume maker for a famous magician, a book illustrator, a graphic designer, an author and a college instructor; only when she and her husband adopted an infant girl from Guatemala did she focus full-time on the creation of children’s books. Today Karen Katz is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 50 children’s books; her multicultural picture books including the best-selling Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? and her books are both family favorites and found in many library collections. The scope of Karen Katz children’s and toddler’s books is comprehensive and includes board books, novelty books with movable parts and interesting textures, lift-a-flap board books; books on manners, potty training, counting and body parts; baby books for older siblings; Spanish version children’s and baby books, family fun book gift sets and more.