The creators of Ivy and Bean — author Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall — laugh when told they are considered superstars in some households. With tongue in cheek, Barrows jokes, “If you’re ...

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It’s not often inspiration strikes after literally getting hit with a book, but that’s what happened to author Annie Barrows with her latest novel, “Nothing” (HarperCollins, 224 pages, $17.99). The ...

Take one female bookworm on the verge of adolescence. Place her in a small town on the edge of the South during the Great Depression. Give her a missing parent and a fallen-from-grace family running a ...

Ivy + Bean author Annie Barrows recently embarked on a national tour in celebration of the release of The Best of Iggy, kicking off her new middle-grade series illustrated by Sam Ricks (Putnam, Jan.).

Annie Barrows is a name well-known to booksellers, given the success of the 2008 adult bestseller, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Dial), which she co-wrote with the late Mary Ann ...

In 2008, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" was celebrated by readers around the world. The heartwarming story centered on members of a clandestine book club living on the ...

So much time did young Annie Barrows spend at her local library that she was hired to shelve books there at age 12. She grew up to write some herself, including (with her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer), the ...

It takes a brave author to make the heroine of a new novel an observant and feisty girl who has no mother and adores her father, growing up during the Depression in a small Southern town where ...

Annie Barrows' sprawling historical novel, "The Truth According to Us," opens on a summer day in 1938 along a crowded parade route in the small town of Macedonia, W.Va. The narrator in those early ...