Anne Carroll Moore (July 12, 1871 – January 20, 1961)[1] was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries.

Her brother suggested that she consider the emerging profession of librarian, so Moore applied to the Pratt Institute Library in Brooklyn, where she was accepted into the one-year program (1895)[4] under Mary Wright Plummer.

[6] In 1896, Moore graduated from Pratt, and accepted an offer to organize a children's room at that same institute, partly due to a paper which Lutie E. Stearns had presented at the 1894 meeting of the American Library Association (ALA), "Report on the Reading of the Young".

[5] Moore then set out to create a welcoming space for children with child-sized furniture, open stacks, cozy reading nooks, story times, puppet shows, summer programming, quality juvenile literature and perhaps most importantly, librarians committed to working with children.

[7] In 1900, she attended a meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) and helped to organize the Club of Children's Librarians.

In 1906, she moved to the New York Public Library, having accepted the position of Superintendent of the Department of Work with Children, which Director John Shaw Billings had offered to her.

[5] She believed her job was to provide, "to the children of foreign parentage a feeling of pride in the beautiful things of the country his parents have left."

White's Stuart Little[f] and Charlotte's Web),[5] her stamp of approval or disapproval was often widely accepted as final judgment on a book.

[5] She despised Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, published in 1947, seriously impacting sales of the now popular book.

Initially refusing to cede control to her successor, Frances Clarke Sayers, Moore continued to attend meetings of the New York Public Library.

She mentored in turn many significant authors of children's literature, including Margaret McElderry, children's editor and publisher; Eleanor Estes, winner of the 1952 Newbery Medal and three-time runner-up; Claire Huchet Bishop, author of The Five Chinese Brothers; Marcia Brown, winner of three Caldecott Medals for illustration; and Ruth Hill Viguers, editor of The Horn Book.

Several librarians published books that developed from their story times at the New York Public Library Children's Room during Moore's tenure, including Mary Gould Davis, Anna Cogswell Tyler and Pura Belpré.

Because the Central Children's Room of the New York Public Library was privately funded, Moore was allowed greater freedom in her hiring practices.

Frances Clarke Sayers, her successor described them as, "young women with unusual gifts, aptitudes, manifold backgrounds, and varied educational experiences."