Barry Root spent a good bit of his childhood lying on the floor, reading stories and drawing pictures with his brothers. He always planned to be an artist, without really thinking about it much, and when the time came, he got up and went off to art school. After graduation, he worked freelance illustration jobs for newspapers and magazines but soon discovered that storytelling with pictures was what he wanted to do. He lives in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a hundred-year-old farmhouse with his wife, the illustrator Kimberly Bulcken Root, and two dogs, Moses and Xavi. They have three grown children.
The artist in his studio, working on the illustrations for The Bell in the Bridge
