ate McMullan has teamed up with her illustrator husband, James McMullan, to create several notable picture books including, I Stink! (HarperCollins, 2002) a monologue by a garbage truck, which won a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2002, a Horn Book Honor, and Bank Street's Irma S. & James H. Black Honor. Kate and Jim followed I Stink! with I'm Mighty!, a day in the life of a hard-working tugboat, and I'm Dirty!, the adventures of a dirt-digging backhoe loader. Spring 2008 will see the publication of I’m Bad!, the tale of a tantrum-throwing T. rex.

Kate is also the author of two series for beginning readers: Fluffy, the Classroom Guinea Pig and Pearl and Wagner. For slightly older readers, she has created a zany world of medieval mayhem in her popular Dragon Slayers' Academy series.

She writes: "When I visit schools, I encourage kids to write about their own lives, about what they know. One day a 4th grader said, "But you write the Dragon Slayers' Academy books. What do you know about life in a medieval boarding school?" Great question. The answer is that when I write about Wiglaf, I think back to my grade school days—the yucky lunches, the torture of gym class for the non-athletic, and teachers who went off on long, rambling tangents. Every character in the series is loosely based on someone I've met, from my second-grade best friend to my daughter's orthodontist."

Kate is a huge fan of New Yorker cartoonist, George Booth, and she’s had lots of laughs collaborating with him on a book entitled The Adventures of Ron Faster, Izzy Normal, Gladys Friday and Miss Ingashoe and the Harvey N. Trouble School for the Fall 2008 season.

Kate grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She taught sixth grade in inner-city Los Angeles and on an American Air Force base in Germany. To date she has more than one-hundred children's books to her credit. Ms. McMullan and her husband live in Sag Harbor, New York, with two dogs and a cat.