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Barbara Cooney

Author

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.

Bibliography

Books

30 books

The Book of Children's Classics cover

The Book of Children's Classics

1997

Don Freeman, Munro Leaf, David McPhail, Ludwig Bemelmans, Barbara Cooney, Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Judy Blume, Robert McCloskey, Jean Craighead George, Astrid Lindgren, Donald J. Sobol, Roald Dahl, Lloyd Alexander