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, I'm Dirty!, the adventures of a dirt-digging backhoe loader, and I’m Bad!, the tale of a tantrum-throwing T. rex. Fall 2010 will see the publication of I’m Big!, the story of one super sorry Sauropod. Currently in the works is I'm Fast! a high-speed chase between a race car and a fully loaded freight train.

Her latest picture book, Bulldog's Big Day (Scholastic 2011) is illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre, and tells the story of Bulldog's wild-and-crazy search for a job.

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. The 20th book in the series will be out in Spring 2012.

A huge fan of New Yorker cartoonist, George Booth, Kate had lots of laughs collaborating with him on a whacky new chapter book, School, featuring an unusual roster of students: Ron Faster, Izzy Normal, Gladys Friday, Anita Dawg, little Chuckie Upkins. The faculty roster includes gym teacher, Coach Swollentoe, science teacher, Roxanne Pebbles, music teacher, Doremi Fasollatido, and the principal, Miss Ingashoe.

This fall, Kate’s Myth-o-Mania series—the Greek myths as narrated by Hades, ruler of the Underworld—will be back in print courtesy of Capstone Books.

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.