Roberta Jean Nowlin, teacher, writer, singer and musician, earned her Bachelor of Science degree at the State University of New York at Albany and her Masters degree in Education at C.W. Post College, Long Island University. Roberta has enjoyed a lifetime of teaching, performing, playing and singing with children all across America; however, the majority of her teaching career was spent among the Northern Cheyenne Indians in Montana. Currently, she lives with her husband and their watchcat, Jumper, in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. Silver the Littlest Raindrop is her first children's book.