Kate Read

Kate Read (also called Baby Kate) is a character of both the book series and children's television show Arthur. She is a one-year-old infant and lives in Elwood City with her family, the Reads.

Profile

 * Name: Kaitlyn Read


 * Alias: Baby Kate


 * Gender: Female


 * Age: 1
 * Birthday: November 2


 * Parents: David Read (father), Jane Read (mother)


 * Siblings: Arthur Read (older brother), Dora Winifred Read (older sister)


 * Grandparents: Thora Read (paternal grandmother), Dave (maternal grandfather), Thora's Mother (great-grandmother).

by Janet and Alan Ahlberg Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury I See by Rachel Isadora Max's Ride by Rosemary Wells
 * Other: Jessica, Lucille (maternal aunts), Richard (Jessica's husband), Cora (cousin), Monique Read (cousin).
 * Kate's favourite books: Blue Buggy

Appearance
Baby Kate is an aardvark like her parents and siblings. She wears a pink shirt, green pajama pants, white disposable diapers, and a yellow bow in her hair. Her swimwear are swim diapers that are about the same color as regular diapers, a red bathing shirt, and a white bathing cap with red polka dots. When she was just a baby, she was wearing pink footsie pajamas with green accents. She also had a pacifier in her mouth when she was just a baby; but since she became a year old, she has rarely ever has a pacifier in her mouth. An Early Kate can be seen in Arthur's Baby and D.W.'s Baby.



Personality
She's able to communicate with Pal, Mei-Lin and other animals or babies but people who are older than her dismiss it as "baby talk" gibberish, and Kate and the animals interpret grownups' talk likewise. She enjoys playing in her sandpit and shows remarkable intelligence for her age, despite not being able to communicate with people older than herself. But in one episode she couldn't hear Pal correctly at times. Despite being a year old, she rarely stands up. On certain occasions, she is prone to crying. At one point, she threw a tantrum over losing a balloon, and Pal would run off and bring her back a balloon in order to cheer her up.

Friends

 * Pal
 * Mei-Lin