Karen Katz
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Karen Katz is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Karen Katz
Karen Katz has made over fifty bright, patterned lift-the-flap books for babies, with a specialty in the toddler body, family love, and peekaboo mechanics. Her flaps are famously sized for unskilled fingers.
Katz began her first book, Over the Moon, to tell the story of adopting her daughter from Guatemala — and the joyful, patterned style she developed for it became her signature.
Also by this author: Where Is Baby’s Mommy? · Counting Kisses · Toes, Ears, & Nose!
Official website: www.karenkatz.com
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.