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Silver Burdett is an American primary education textbook publishing imprint owned by Pearson Education which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC. Silver Burdett was first formed as a company in 1888 when Frank W. Burdett purchased a controlling interest in the textbook publishing company Silver & Company. In 1962 Silver Burdett was acquired by Time Inc. and it became the distributor of Time-Life Books to schools and libraries.