Anita Silvey is an American author, editor, and literary critic in the genre of children’s literature.
Among illustrators and authors whom she promoted were David Wiesner, Chris Van Allsburg, Virginia Lee Burton, and Lois Lowry.
She also penned a young-adult book on women soldiers in the American Civil War, I'll Pass for Your Comrade.
In 2008, she wrote an influential article in School Library Journal in which she "criticized the Newbery selections as too difficult for most children.
In 2008, she won the Ludington Award of the Educational Paperback Association for lifetime dedication to children and books.