Anita Sanchez
                                Anita Sanchez spent her early childhood on Cape Ann, the site of 
The Invasion of Sandy Bay. A graduate of Vassar College, she has been an environmental educator for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for thirty years. She is the author of 
The Teeth of the Lion: The Story of the Beloved and Despised Dandelion. She lives in Amsterdam, New York. 
The Invasion of Sandy Bay is her first book for children.