Barbara Cooney

The true story of Miss Rumphius, who made the world a more beautiful place with a handful of seeds.

Presents the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became known as a great humanitarian.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

A young girl from Brooklyn, New York, enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves.

After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

Lyrical text relates the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a present-day farm. Annotation. What child is this Who is born here Where the oxen Stomp and peer... When christmas in the barn was first published in 1952, it demonstrated all of Margaret Wise Brown's mastery at skillfully fashioning a truly childlike interpretation of the Nativity story. For this larger, full-color edition,...

A lyrical adaptation of the writings of Opal Whiteley, in which she describes her love of nature and her life in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century.

A bear, befriended by two sisters during the winter, returns one day to reward them royally for their kindness.

Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.

Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of Maine.