Cooney, Barbara

Cooney, Barbara
▪ 2001

      American children's author and illustrator (b. Aug. 6, 1917, New York, N.Y.—d. March 10, 2000, Portland, Maine), was a literary star in the world of children's publishing who wrote or illustrated 110 books in a career that spanned six decades. Born into a family of artists, she received formal training at the Art Students League in New York City before publishing her first book, King of Wrecked Island (1941). In 1959 Cooney was awarded the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration for The Chanticleer and the Fox, her adaptation of a story from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. She received a second Caldecott Medal in 1980 for her illustrations for poet Donald Hall's Ox-Cart Man. Cooney's 1982 work, Miss Rumphius, won the National Book Award for children's picture books. Basket Moon, her last book, appeared in 1999.

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