I'll Pass For Your Comrade : Women Soldiers In the Civil War
VOYA: Silvey, author of Children's Books and Their Creators (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), offers a fascinating account of women who fought in the Civil War as she describes the primary reasons why women chose to disguise themselves and fight alongside their husbands and brothers. She provides more than a dozen examples of women who fought in […]
100 Best Books For Children
School Library Journal Review: What makes a book a classic? Silvey, a longtime children's book specialist and literature lover, addresses that question in order to identify books that represent a "basic literary heritage." The result is a highly select list of 100 titles published from 1902 to 2002. These are titles that have been or […]