We spent a month in Italy this summer, and before we went I bought twenty books, mostly Newberry award winners, and shipped them there so she would have some English language reading matter.

She has probably read over a hundred books in the last year. I've tried to get her to branch out, so I've bought her other books, too, including classics. She loved them, read several of them many times, and carried them around with her for some time. She especially liked the Magic Treehouse books, so I bought her (over time) all of them (more than forty). So I've been looking for books for her over the last couple of years, checking out libraries, web sites, etc. He lives with his family in Utah.īelow, please find links to purchase their books.Luckily for us our daughter, aged 7, likes to read. He has illustrated more than 20 books for kids, including the Geisel Award-winning Mo series. Sam Ricks is the illustrator of the Iggy Series. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters. A New York Times bestseller, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society has been published in thirty-seven countries and thirty-two languages. In addition to her children’s books, Annie is the co-author, with her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer, of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which was published by The Dial Press in 2008. Its sequel, Magic in the Mix, came out in 2014. A novel for older children, The Magic Half, was published by BloomsburyUSA in 2008. The Ivy + Bean books have been translated into fourteen languages in 2013 Ivy + Bean: The Musical premiered in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Ivy + Bean series appears with some regularity on the New York Times bestseller list and a number of other national best-seller lists. This title, an ALA Notable Book for 2007, was followed by nine others. In 2006, the first book in her children’s series, Ivy + Bean was published.

Conversations with Authors is our free online event series! Join us throughout the week for new chats between different authors.Īnnie Barrows’ new release, Iggy is Better Than Ever, is the second book in her wonderful children’s book series that demonstrates how causing a little bit of trouble can sometimes be a whole lot of fun.Īnnie wrote several non-fiction books on topics ranging from fortune-telling to opera before turning her attention to children’s books.

The magic half by annie barrows