Sylvia M. Vardell is Professor Emerita in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University, USA, and the author of Children’s Literature in Action (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2019) and Poetry Aloud Here (2006) and editor of A World Full of Poems (2020). She has served on national award committees including the ALA Caldecott, Odyssey, Sibert, and Legacy committees, and the NCTE Poetry Award Committee.