Eric A. Kim­mel is the author of more than a hun­dred books for chil­dren, includ­ing the clas­sic Her­shel and the Hanukkah Gob­lins and more recent­ly Lit­tle Red Rosie: A Rosh Hashanah Sto­ry and Big Sam: A Rosh Hashanah Tall Tale. He is the only author to have won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award five times for The Chanukkah Guest, The Mys­te­ri­ous Guests: A Sukkot Sto­ry, Won­ders & Mir­a­cles: A Passover Com­pan­ion, The Golem s Latkes, and Hanukkah Bear. The Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries has award­ed him the Syd­ney Tay­lor Life­time Achieve­ment Award.