Anita Sanchez

An­ita Sanc­hez’s nest of on­line treas­ures is that kind of web­site that warms the heart in an un­ex­pec­ted way. It could have been that this au­thor and nat­ur­al­ist edu­cator is in­clined to tackle as­pects of nature that no one might think could be the sub­ject of a suc­cess­ful book. 

Her award-win­ning non-fic­tional books tackle — in a man­ner which is sci­en­tific­ally-driven, yet ad­ap­ted to the children’s level of un­der­stand­ing, — sub­jects like tarantu­las, bats, poison ivy, dan­deli­ons, slime, noc­turnal an­im­als and many other nat­ural phe­nom­ena. To­gether with these is­sues, the au­thor wrote about Amer­ican his­tory in a cap­tiv­at­ing way. With a total of nine books, An­ita Sanc­hez is a renowned and loved au­thor who of­fers sci­ence facts packed in a col­our­ful and ap­peal­ing form.

Tak­ing into ac­count that she dis­covered her pas­sion for nature dur­ing her first sum­mer job, where she had to lead kids on nature walks, An­ita Sanc­hez has con­tin­ued her work as an en­vir­on­mental edu­cator. In the Pro­grams sec­tion of her web­site, she presents a large vari­ety of pro­grams for schools, lib­rar­ies and mu­seums. Some of her pro­grams deal with writ­ing non-fic­tion for ele­ment­ary stu­dents, maple sug­ar­ing, bones ex­plor­a­tion or pic­ture book craft­ing. Her classes work on the prin­ciple of hands-on, par­ti­cip­at­ory tech­niques and are suit­able for a wide range of people. 

An­ita Sanc­hez keeps a close con­tact with her read­ers through the Un­mowed blog. The blog has been func­tional since the au­tumn of 2012 and it is a great way of get­ting in­side the mind of the au­thor. With a kind and sens­it­ive voice, she writes about every day life, sea­sons and nature to­gether with the cur­rent is­sues of society. 

Even if the tem­plate of the web­site looks like a blog and the mo­bile ver­sion is a little bit dif­fi­cult to read due to its one column ar­range­ment, An­ita Sanc­hez’s web­site is a gem wait­ing to be dis­covered. The qual­ity of its con­tent and the kind ap­proach to nature give com­fort and a feel­ing of hap­pi­ness while brows­ing through the author’s ad­ven­tures and per­spect­ive of life.