Award-winning author, Erica Silverman, has written over twenty-five picture books and early readers. Her newest book The City Sings Green and other Poems about Welcoming Wildlife, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard and earned an SLJ starred review.
Her other books include the popular Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series, the first of which was a 2006 Theodore (Seuss) Geisel Honor Book; the Lana’s World series, about a little girl with a big imagination; Jack (Not Jackie!) which Booklist said, “…belongs in every library…”; the picture book biography, Sholom’s Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer, winner of the 2006 Sydney Taylor Award and a National Jewish Book Award runner up; Big Pumpkin, a perennial Halloween favorite; Don’t Fidget a Feather, a California Young Reader Medal winner; and Hanukkah Hop, which the New York Times called a “spirited shindig…that swings”.
Erica has taught nursery school, English as a Second Language, SAT preparation and writing. She’s a recently retired librarian with the Los Angeles Public Library, where she led a life story writing workshop, an LGBTQIA book club and worked with the community to create a series of programs on climate change and biodiversity. She is available to speak at schools, libraries, and conferences.
She loves being represented by Red Fox Literary Agency, which she imagines as a cozy den full of foxes busily writing, painting, singing, dancing and eating chocolate.
Erica is represented by Karen Grencik.
