In 1985, at the ABA convention in San Francisco, Bonnie Verberg offered Barry Moser an opportunity to illustrate his first children's book, an adaptation of the stories of Joel Chandler Harris by Van Dyke Parks titled, Jump! Barry’s Pennyroyal Press limited editions of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Frankenstein, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been published as trade editions by the University of California Press. Barry, Jeff Dwyer and Elizabeth O’Grady were exhibiting the Pennyroyal Press limited editions in the U-Cal Press booth at the ABA annual convention.

Since that visit to San Francisco, Barry has illustrated more than seventy-five children's books. Many of the children’s books illustrated by Barry have also been designed by him. Barry has taken care to adhere to the design tradition of: William Morris, Bruce Rogers, Cobden-Sanderson, Eric Gill, Frederic Goudy, Leonard Baskin and Harry Duncan, so that all of Barry’s books display his personal sense of proportion and balance. His calligraphy, often published under the pseudonym, Reassurance Wunder, has been used for numerous title pages and chapter openings for the books he’s illustrated.

Barry has produced hundreds of award winning children's book illustrations at a remarkable pace, particularly when one considers that he has continued to illustrate numerous adult titles for his Pennyroyal Press and assorted trade publishers. Some of those adult titles include Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Norman MacLean’s A River Runs Through It, Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom, and the monumental Pennyroyal-Caxton Holy Bible, the only edition of the bible designed and illustrated by an individual artist in the twentieth century.

Presently, Barry lives in North Hatfield, Massachusetts with his wife, Emily, and a collection of dogs and cats. When not creating pictures for books, he lectures about the book arts around the country and teaches a course in printing at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. For further information about Barry including lectures, school visits, and the sale of his original artwork, please visit Barry’s website at: www.moser-pennyroyal.com.