Anita Silvey

Anita Silvey is among today's foremost authorities on children's books. She is the creator of both the online and the forthcoming print editions of the Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac, and teaches courses in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Children’s Literature Program at Simmons College. A frequent contributor to NPR, Ms. Silvey lectures around the country on children’s and young adult books. Her recent books include Henry Knox: Bookseller, Soldier, Patriot, I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War, and Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.


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The Plant Hunters
The Plant Hunters

Anita Silvey
Melanie Kroupa Books

Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and...


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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book

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Roaring Brook Press

"What children's book changed the way you see the world?" Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired...


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