Erin Silver is an award-winning children's author and freelance writer. Her books for children 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 (Ontario Library Association Best Pick, Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor, Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award finalist) and Good Food, Bad Waste: Let's Eat for the Planet (long listed for the 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books), Mighty Scared: The Amazing Ways Animals Defend Themselves, In It to Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis and All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet. Several additional nonfiction titles about plants, animals and climate change are forthcoming.
Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books, including Pride Puppy!, Little Cloud, and Why We Live Where We Live, winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction. She also illustrated three books in the Orca Think series: What Animals Want, Breaking News and Fresh Air, Clean Water. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.
