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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).
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild.
24 de fev. de 2014 · Cooney has sometimes been described as a “librarians’ illustrator,” choosing understated but rich stories to illustrate. She even gave a nod to librarians everywhere by bestowing that profession on the title character Miss Rumphius (the Lupine Lady).
Author and illustrator of more than 100 books for children, Barbara Cooney died on March 10, 2000, at the age of eighty-three. — Vicki Palmquist.
Chanticleer and the Fox. In the children's picture book Chanticleer and the Fox, Barbara Cooney adapted and illustrated the story of Chanticleer and the Fox as told in The Nun's Priest's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, translated by Robert Mayer Lumiansky.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d., Barbara Cooney
- 1958
15 de mar. de 2000 · Barbara Cooney, an author and illustrator of children's books whose first work was published in 1940 and whose 110th, ''Basket Moon,'' appeared last fall, died on Friday at a hospital in...
14 de mar. de 2000 · Barbara Cooney 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 and Ox-Cart Man, and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius.
