Who Wrote That? Meet Erica Silverman

As a child, Erica Silverman turned to books to help her make sense of the world. “The feelings of childhood are very intense and unmitigated by the adult perspective,” she says. “I remember feeling the powerlessness of being subject to the intensity of those feelings without the ability to express them or make sense of them. Books were the places I went to find that characters had similar feelings to me.” As a children’s writer, Silverman tries to stay in touch with the intensity of childhood emotions and the way stories can connect children to the ability to express themselves. More…