Elle Caraway

Elle Caraway, who also writes under the name Leslie Kimmelman, is the author of more than fifty books for children, both fiction and nonfiction. She was a children's book editor for many years, including almost twenty-five years at Sesame Workshop. She is the author of We're Amazing, 1, 2, 3, A Story About Friendship and Autism, the book that first introduced Sesame Street's Julia. Leslie lives just outside New York City and—shhh!—is extremely ticklish.