Kate Louise Brown

Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857 – December 31, 1921) was a children's educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, in addition to poems, songs, and magazine articles. She wrote many children's scientific novels, poems, and periodical articles, many of which surround nature and botany themes. For example, her book The Plant Baby and Its Friends, published in 1898, explains botany like the plant is a child. Brown believed in presenting advanced topics to children in an interesting way as a story, not in textbook form.

While she was most famous for her books, Brown also wrote poems for children ("Goddesses", "The Return", "Clappers", "The Christ Clappers") and music for kindergarten marching plays. Brown was born in the Berkshire countryside of Massachusetts and grew up spending her time outside, flourishing her love for nature as she studied birds, animals, and plants. Her first novel was a story about southern life and slavery with the main protagonist dying at the end. Arnold has "The Little Seed" published in one of her textbooks for teaching grammar and literature. Brown was very active in the educational community, as she was in the Author's Club, and had many connections with famous writers.