Kate Read

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

Profile

 * Name: Kaitlin Read
 * Alias: Baby Kate
 * Gender: Female
 * Age: 1 year old
 * Birthday: February 1st
 * 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).
 * Other: Jessica, Lucille (maternal aunts), Richard (Jessica's husband), Cora (cousin), Monique Read (cousin) Pal (pet.) Gustaf (great-great-grandfather)

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

Her favorite books are:
 * Blue Buggy by Janet and Alan Ahlberg
 * Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury
 * I See by Rachel Isadora
 * Max's Ride by Rosemary Wells.

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 she and the animals interpret grownups' talk likewise. She enjoys playing in her sandbox 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 wanting a balloon, and Pal ran off and brought her back one in order to cheer her up.

Friends

 * Pal
 * Mei-Lin

Trivia

 * The place Kate wants to visit the most is the big kids' playground.
 * Her favorite color is yellow.
 * She likes Arthur, DW, and putting mashed potatoes on her face.
 * She wants to be toilet-trained when she grows up.