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Annie Barrows


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Annie Barrows was born in 1962 in San Diego, California, but quickly moved to a small town called San Anselmo in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent most of her childhood at the library. She wouldn't leave, so they hired her to shelve books at the age of twelve.

Annie attended UC Berkeley and received a B. A. in Medieval History. She knows more than the average person about 3rd century saints. Under the impression that a career in publishing meant she'd get to read a lot, Annie became a proofreader at an art magazine and later an editor at a textbook publishing company. In 1988, Chronicle Books hired Annie as an editorial assistant, from which platform she became successively assistant editor, managing editor, Editor, and Senior Editor. Somewhere in this trajectory, she acquired Griffin & Sabine, Chronicle's first New York Times best seller.

In 1996, Annie received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Mills College and had a baby, a confluence of events that persuaded her to leave editorial work and move into writing.

Annie lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Historical, Young Adult Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Ivy and Bean
   1. Ivy and Bean (2006)
   2. The Ghost That Had to Go (2006)
   3. Break the Fossil Record (2007)
   4. Take Care of the Babysitter (2008)
   5. Bound to be Bad (2008)
   6. Doomed to Dance (2009)
   7. What's the Big Idea? (2010)
   8. No News Is Good News (2011)
   9. Make the Rules (2012)
   10. Take the Case (2013)
   11. One Big Happy Family (2018)
   12. Get to Work! (2021)
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Miri and Molly
   1. The Magic Half (2007)
   2. Magic in the Mix (2014)
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Iggy
   1. The Best of Iggy (2020)
   2. Is Better Than Ever (2020)
   3. Is the Hero of Everything (2021)
   4. The Legend (2022)
   5. The Animal Kingdom (2023)
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Picture Books show
 
Annie Barrows recommends
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Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey (2021)
(Maybe Marisol, book 1)
Erin Entrada Kelly
"Utterly endearing!"
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Meet Me At the Museum (2018)
Anne Youngson
"Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor."
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Dear Mrs. Bird (2018)
(Emmy Lake Chronicles, book 1)
AJ Pearce
"Funny, fresh, and touching, Dear Mrs. Bird is a pitch-perfect pleasure. It’s a rare and wonderful thing to read a book that seems to live properly in its era."

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