Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O’Brien

Margy Burns Knight, a children’s book writer and career educator has received the National Education Association’s Author Illustrator Human and Civil Rights Award for her work with Anne Sibley O’Brien and the Children’s Africana Book Award for Africa Is Not a Country. A Peace Corps veteran she is a Service Learning Coordinator and English teacher.

Anne Sibley O’Brien illustrated Talking Walls and four other titles by Margy Burns Knight, plus 27 other books, 14 of which she also wrote. Anne was honored by the Maine Library Association with the lifetime achievement Katahdin Award for her body of work. She lives on Peaks Island and is excited to be a brand-new grandmother.