For the Press

The author of Undaunt­ed: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdika and Her Fear­less Quest to Save Orang­utans; Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall; Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger; 100 Best Books for Chil­dren, and Every­thing I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book, Ani­ta Sil­vey has devot­ed 40 years to pro­mot­ing books that will turn the young — and fam­i­lies — into read­ers. She has appeared fre­quent­ly on NPR, The Today Show, 60 Min­utes, and var­i­ous radio pro­grams to talk about our best books for young peo­ple. In a unique career in the children’s book field, Ms. Sil­vey has divid­ed her time equal­ly between pub­lish­ing, eval­u­at­ing children’s books, and writ­ing. Her life­long con­vic­tion that “only the very best of any­thing can be good enough for the young” forms the cor­ner­stone of her work. For­mer­ly pub­lish­er of children’s books for Houghton Mif­flin Com­pa­ny and edi­tor-in-chief of The Horn Book Mag­a­zine, she cur­rent­ly teach­es mod­ern book pub­lish­ing, children’s book pub­lish­ing, and children’s book author stud­ies at sev­er­al colleges.