Erica Silverman

Erica Silverman is an award-winning American author of over twenty-five children's picture books and early readers, including the series Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa—a Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book—the Halloween favorite Big Pumpkin, and the biography Sholom’s Treasure, winner of the Sydney Taylor Award. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 21, 1955, she earned a B.A. magna cum laude from UCLA in 1982, taught English as a second language and nursery school, worked as a librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library, and has been a freelance writer since 1982.[1][5][7][8]