Barbara Cooney
6 August 1917 – 10 March 2000
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982). Her books have been translated into 10 languages. For her contribution as a children's illustrator, Cooney was the U.S. nominee in 1994 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books.
Books
- The Book of Children's Classics
- Miss Rumphius
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Dionysos and the pirates
- Chanticleer and the fox
- Lost Treasures
- Island Boy
- The courtship, merry marriage, and feast of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, to which is added The doleful death of Cock Robin
- Mother Goose in French
- Hattie and the wild waves
- The story of Christmas
- Island Boy
- The American speller
- The Kellyhorns
- Miss Rumphius
- The little juggler
- Eleanor
- Christmas
- Princess tales
- The man who didn't wash his dishes
- Garland of Games and Other Diversions
- The Little Juggler
- King of Wreck island
- Hattie and the wild waves
- Island boy
- The Story of Christmas
- Miss Rumphius
- Miss Rumphius, Island Boy
- A garland of games & other diversions
- Tortillitas para mamá and other nursery rhymes
- Twenty-five years a-graying
- Snow-White and Rose-Red
- Little brother and little sister
- A Little prayer
- Eleanor
- island boy
- Snow-white and Rose-Red
- Tortillitas para mamá and other nursery rhymes
- Chanticleer and the fox by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Mother Goose in Spanish. [Poeśias de la Madre Oca]
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