Kate Read

Kate Read
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Age	1
Gender	Female
Animal	Aardvark
Favorite color	Yellow
Family	Jane Read (mom) David Read (dad) D.W. Read (older sister) Arthur Read (older brother) Grandma Thora (paternal) Grandpa Dave (maternal)

Kate Read (normally called Baby Kate) is a one-year-old infant and lives in Elwood City with her family, the Reads. She is modeled after Marc Brown's youngest daughter, Eliza.

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 had one. An early Kate can be seen in Arthur's Baby and D.W.'s Baby.

Alternate apparel

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

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  Kate being pushed in the baby swings by her mom.

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  This is Baby Kate's favorite blanket. It is a Native American artifact.

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

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

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

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Personality

She is able to communicate with Pal, Mei-Lin and other animals or babies. Anybody who is older than her 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.

History

Early life

Kate as a newborn baby

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

Season 1

At her first birthday, Kate put her face in the birthday cake in "Arthur's Baby."

Growing Up and Future Life

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

Kate imagining herself as a teenager.

Relatives

This is a list for anyone not a main family member.

• Thora's mother (great-grandmother)
• Jessica (maternal aunt)
• Lucy (maternal aunt)
• Richard (Jessica's husband)
• Cora (cousin)
• Monique (cousin)
• Ricky (cousin)
• Unknown Female Aardvark (Number 2) (cousin)
• Gustaf (great-great-grandfather)

Trivia

• A running joke is her first word, ranging from "bloog-agwa" to "Brain" or "D.W."