![]() ![]() It also earned Barrows a two-book deal from Dial Press. ![]() The author's 2008 novel for adults, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato-Peel Pie Society," co-written with her late aunt Mary Ann Shaffer, has racked up 3 million in sales and been translated into 25 languages, with a film adaptation in development. Saturday is the first annual International Ivy & Bean Day, with more than 500 libraries and bookstores worldwide participating. ![]() The series, illustrated by Sophie Blackall, has sold 2.5 million books since its 2006 launch and been translated into six languages. "My only reason to write these books is to give kids a good time." "I'm not trying to make them feel anything," says Barrows, 50, a lithe 5-foot-2 with big eyes, round face and brown hair not unlike like Bean. Critics praise the series for its readability and realistic depiction of a second-grader's world kids love the friendship of opposites and that the books are not manipulative like so many children's books are. Bean is brunette, loud and ready for action. Ivy is a redhead, quiet and full of ideas. It is the ninth in the chapter-book series about the friendship and antics of two very different 7-year-old girls. Barrows' latest book, "Ivy + Bean Make the Rules" (Chronicle Books, $14.99), came out in September. ![]()
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