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Erin Silver

Erin Silver is an award-winning children’s author. Her books include Just Watch Me (Krystal Kite Award nominee), What Kids Did: Stories of Kindness and Invention in the Time of COVID-19 (Hackmatack Award nominee), Proud to Play: LGBTQ+ Athletes Who Made History, Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award finalist) and Good Food, Bad Waste: Let’s Eat for the Planet (2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books finalist). Erin was chosen to tour during Canadian Children’s Book Week in 2023 and is a sought-after speaker at schools, libraries and conferences. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and a postgraduate journalism degree. Erin lives in Toronto.

Books by Erin Silver

Plant Attack!

The Fascinating Ways Flora Defends Itself

by (author) Erin Silver
illustrated by Julie McLaughlin

Resistance and Survivors

by (author) Erin Silver

All Consuming

Shop Smarter for the Planet

by (author) Erin Silver
illustrated by Suharu Ogawa

I Am Jewish

by (author) Erin Silver

In It to Win It

Sports and the Climate Crisis

by (author) Erin Silver
illustrated by Pui Yan Fong

Mighty Scared

The Amazing Ways Animals Defend Themselves

by (author) Erin Silver
illustrated by Hayden Maynard

Good Food, Bad Waste

Let's Eat for the Planet

by (author) Erin Silver
illustrated by Suharu Ogawa

Sitting Shiva

by (author) Erin Silver
illustrated by Michelle Theodore

Rush Hour

Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam

by (author) Erin Silver

Proud to Play

Canadian LGBTQ+ athletes who made history

by (author) Erin Silver

What Kids Did

Stories of Kindness and Invention In the Time of COVID-19

by (author) Erin Silver

Just Watch Me!

by (author) Erin Silver

Otherwise

Imagining queer feminist art histories

edited by Amelia Jones & Erin Silver