Barbara Robinson

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born

Portsmouth, Ohio, The United States

gender

female

website

http://usawrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/robinson/

genre

Children's Books

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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

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Average rating: 4.11 · 10,169 ratings · 1,122 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson, Elaine Stritch (Reading) 4.16 avg rating — 9,123 ratings — published 1972 — 39 editions	My rating:
	The Best School Year Ever 3.73 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1985 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Best Halloween Ever 3.59 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	My rating:
	My Brother Louis Measures Worms: And Other Louis Stories 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Best Barbara Robinson Treasury Ever by Barbara Robinson, Judith Brown (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Temporary Times, Temporary Places 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Unknown Book 2380989 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The Best Barbara Robinson CD Audio Collection Ever: The Best Barbara Robinson CD Audio Collection Ever by Barbara Robinson, Elaine Stritch (Reading) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: A Novel Teaching Pack 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Focus Instructor's Manual: Interactive Grammar for Students of ESL by Barbara Robinson, David Y. Budbill, Christopher Presfield 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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The Herdmans (3 books)
by Barbara Robinson

4.11 avg rating — 10,108 ratings

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