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Barbara Cooney
Barbara Cooney was a picture book author and illustrator. She was born in Brooklyn, New York 1917. Her mother was an artist. She went to Smith College. After that she went to an art school.
Barbara married a doctor when she was 28 years old. She had 4 children in Massachusetts. Barbara also traveled all over the world.
Some of Barbara’s favorite things were art and traveling. She loved art so much that she went to an art school. A lot of things she wrote about were based on things she saw on her travels. Those things she loved helped create books.
Barbara illustrated 100 books and got a lot of prizes for doing things that helped the world. She even gave $550,000 dollars to the Maine public Library. She won 2 Caldecott Medals for Ox-Cart Man and Chanticleer and the Fox. Her illustrating design was folk art style. Her books were mostly based in Maine where she lived. She took episodes from her life and made them into stories. She used her experiences in her life and other peoples’ lives to make characters.
Some of the books she published were Hattie and the Wild Waves, Island Boy, Miss Rumphius, Ox-Cart Man, Chanticleer and the Fox, and The Diary of a Young Girl. Barbara died in Maine where she lived in 2000.
“Barbara Cooney.” Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site. 2010. http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/bcooney.html
“Biography for Beginners: Barbara Cooney.” Favorable Impressions. 2010 http://www.favimp.com/BBsample.html
Cummings, Pat. Talking with Artists. New York: Bradbury Press, 1992.
Kovacs, Deborah, and James Preller. Meet the Authors and Illustrators: 60 Creators of Favorite Children’s Books Talk About Their Work. Volume Two. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
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