Barbara Robinson





Barbara Robinson

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Portsmouth, Ohio, The United States

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I grew up in a southern Ohio river town -- Portsmouth -- and that small town atmosphere has affected most of my writing.
My mother, widowed when I was three years old, taught school for forty-nine years in that same small town, and her major (indeed, only) extravagance was books. I grew up with, and quickly adopted, the notion that reading was the only way to fill up every scrap of loose time you could snatch.

I had the benefit, as well, of a wide variety of aunts and uncles and cousins, plus the extended family so common to small town life -- the neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mailmen, local heroes and local neâer-do-wells, and even a local blacksmith...great stuff to feed the imagination.

I began writing very early -- poems, pl...more


Average rating: 4.11 · 10,169 ratings · 1,122 reviews · 31 distinct works
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The Best School Year Ever
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1985 — 16 editions
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The Best Halloween Ever
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions
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