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Barbara Helen Berger

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Barbara Helen Berger grew up loving to draw and paint. She studied Art at the University of Washington in Seattle, her home town, where she earned a BFA degree in Painting. During her five years of study, she also went to Yale Summer School of Music & Art, and to Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. In Italy she saw the art she had loved from childhood, seen in her father's art books at home.

For ten years after college, she worked as a painter with gallery shows in Seattle. Then beginning in 1980 she turned her focus to children's books. She says, “All along, I loved writing too. My secret wish was to bring art and words together in my own books.”

Her first was Animalia, inspired by illuminated manuscripts (Celestial Arts, 1982, re-issued...more

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Books by Barbara Helen Berger

Average rating: 4.40 · 913 ratings · 126 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Grandfather Twilight 4.44 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Gwinna 4.71 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	The Donkey's Dream 4.15 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	When the Sun Rose 4.71 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	All The Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Lot of Otters 3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Thunder Bunny 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Jewel Heart 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Animalia: Thirteen Small Tales 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Angels on a Pin 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating: