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Kate Read
Kate.png
Age 1[1][2]

Gender Female
Animal Aardvark[3]
Birthday During the introduction of "Arthur's Baby"

Hair color Light brown[4]

Red[5]

Complexion Pink (as a newborn baby)
Peach (s1-s15)
Beige (s16-present)
Favorite color Yellow[6]
Residence Arthur's House
Family Jane Read (mother)
David Read (father)
Arthur Read (brother)
D.W. Read (sister)

Thora Read (paternal grandmother)
Dave (maternal grandfather)
Gustav (maternal great-great-grandfather)
Bonnie (paternal aunt)
Sean (paternal uncle)
George (paternal cousin)
Bud (paternal uncle)
Loretta (paternal aunt)
Monique (paternal cousin)
Ricky (paternal cousin)
Loretta's daughter (paternal cousin)
Jessica (maternal aunt)
Richard (maternal uncle)
Cora (maternal cousin)
Lucy (maternal aunt)
Lucy's husband (maternal uncle)
Fred (maternal uncle)
David's brother (paternal uncle)
Claudia (aunt)
Hilary (aunt)
Ruthie (aunt)
Jane's great-grandfather (maternal great-great-grandfather)
Jane's great-grandmother (maternal great-great-grandmother)
Matthew (maternal great-great-great-uncle)
Thora's Brother 1 (paternal great-uncle)
Thora's Brother 2 (paternal great-uncle)
Thora's Brother 3 (paternal great-uncle)
Thora's father (paternal great-grandfather)
Thora's mother (paternal great-grandmother)
Thora's mother's great-uncle (paternal great-great-great-great-uncle)

Kate Read is the one-year-old baby of Jane Read and David Read and the younger sister of Arthur Read and D.W. Read.

History

Early life

Kate as a newborn

Kate was first seen as a newborn in "Arthur's Baby" and "D.W.'s Baby".

Season 1

On her first birthday, Kate puts her face in her birthday cake.[7]

Growing Up and Future Life

First revealed in "Paradise Lost", Kate is getting older and becoming less able to talk to Pal and other pets and more able to talk to other anthropomorphic animals. "Mei Lin Takes a Stand" also shows she is able to walk short distances.

During Arthur's dream in "D.W. and the Beastly Birthday", Kate is shown at approximately age 5. She wears D.W.'s hand-me-downs, including her iconic pink jumper. She has fuller, red hair now, in the same style as when she was an infant, with a bow pulled up at the top of her head. D.W. calls her by her new nickname "Katie Bug".

In the book Arthur's Reading Trick, written and illustrated by series creator Marc Brown, she is able recognize several objects by sight and say the words for them, such as "ball" and "diaper."

Physical appearance

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 is 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 has a pacifier in her mouth; but since she became a 1 year old, she has rarely had one. An early Kate can be seen in "Arthur's Baby" and "D.W.'s Baby".

  • Kate in a bathing shirt, swim diaper, and polka-dot bathing cap.

  • Kate playing the fly in Arthur's bug-week project.

  • Baby kate home 04 roll.gif

  • A white jumpsuit with blue polka dots in D.W., Go to Your Room!

  • Kate Read, as she appears in Arthur's Missing Pal.

  • Kate teenager.jpg
  • Babykate.png

  • Kate in Arthur's Baby (1987)

Personality

Kate is able to communicate with Pal, Mei Lin, and other animals, toys, or babies. Anybody who is older than her and can speak English dismisses 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.

Appearances

Trivia

  • She is modeled after Marc Brown's youngest daughter, Eliza.[citation needed]
  • A running gag is her first word, ranging from "bloog-agwa" to "Brain" or "D.W." This causes many continuity errors within the series unless this is explained by the characters forgetting.
  • She can talk, but only to animals, toys, and other babies (similar to Rugrats). She also talks to the viewers when she's featured in an episode's intro.
  • She can say "D.W." by copying D.W.'s lip movements, but she says "D Double woo".[8]
  • She can also say "Uppy".
  • On her Trading Card, her age is listed as "Cute", even though she is one year old.
  • Promotional material often refers to her as "Baby Kate."[9]
  • In "D.W.'s Baby," D.W. tries to sell her for 50 cents.
  • In "The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies," it revealed that she wants to go to Paris someday.

Gallery

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The full image gallery for Kate Read may be viewed at Kate Read/Gallery.

References

  1. ↑ "Happy first birthday, Kate." — Jane Read, "Arthur's Baby"
  2. ↑ "Baby Steps"
  3. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/parents/arthur/help/answers/faq_friends.html (archived page)
  4. ↑ "Paradise Lost"
  5. ↑ "D.W. and the Beastly Birthday"
  6. ↑ http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/tradingcards/cards.html#pg-kate2
  7. ↑ "Arthur's Baby"
  8. ↑ "Baby Steps"
  9. ↑ Masks, Baby Kate Stickers, the PBS Kids website, to name some examples. It's used in the show in "Buster's Second Chance."



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