Some 150 children of Cru staff packed 3,000 school bags for children in South Sudan that included supplies like pencils, pens ...

Ann Packer’s “The Children’s Crusade” is now in paperback. The story centers around the Blair family of six, each dealing with their own internal struggles ...

Author Ann Packer will take part in a literary conversation with Nashville-based author Ed Tarkington Thursday at The Skillery.

Time Out says Bestselling and beloved author Ann Packer presents THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE. This long-awaited novel follows the Blair family for five decades, from the idealistic beginnings of the ...

“The Children’s Crusade” by Ann Packer is a story about an era and a place told through the history of one American family and the children’s complex relationships with each other and their parents.

Packer’s most recent book, “The Children’s Crusade,” chronicles one California family over five decades and the complex drama surrounding them and their family home.

New York Times best-selling author Ann Packer, whose works include ‘The Dive From Clausen’s Pier,’ celebrates her new novel ‘The Children’s Crusade.’ Fowler, a local resident, is a PEN ...

Ann Packers The Children's Crusade revolves around a difficult relationship between parents and children. Photo: ALICJA COLON/Unsplash.com (Royalty-free image, can use anywhere) ...

The Children's Crusade (**** out of four), Ann Packer's absorbing novel about a California family, is suffused with parental love. Not the baby-powder-smell-and-miracle-of-life kind, but the ...

Ann Packer returns to a theme that appears to hold an enduring fascination for her: the tension between a woman’s drive for personal fulfillment and her obligation to care for others.

“Penny was an only child who for company during her school years had drawn pictures of the children she expected to bear,” author Ann Packer writes in this graceful, poignant novel.

In her compelling new novel, Ann Packer explores five decades in the complicated lives of the Blair family. Focusing on what happens when children grow up with mismatched parents, she juggles ...