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Barbara Cooney (1917–2000)

Autor de La Senorita Runfio

33+ Obras 12,019 Miembros 312 Reseñas 7 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Barbara Cooney and her twin brother were born on 6 August 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, in the Bossert Hotel. She grew up on Long Island, but spent her summers as a child in Maine. Cooney attended a boarding school as a child. Cooney graduated from Smith College in 1938 and studied lithography and mostrar más etching at Art Students League in New York. Just one year after graduation, she had her first commission, the illustrations for Ake and His World by Bertil Malmberg. Recalling an earlier trip to Germany before the war and the horrors that she had seen there, she felt compelled to join the Women's Army Corps during the summer of 1942. She enrolled in officer training and achieved the rank of second lieutenant, but was honorably discharged the following spring because of marriage pregnancy. The couple bought a farm in Pepperell, Massachusetts where they ran a children's camp during the summer months. By this time, Cooney was illustrating several books a year and wrote one now and then. It was for her adaptation of Chaucer's The Nun Priest's Tale that she won the prestigious Caldecott Medal, the highest honor given for illustrated children's books in the United States, in 1959. Twenty-one years later, Cooney again won the Caldecott Medal for Ox-Cart Man written by Donald Hall. In 1993, Ms. Cooney deposited more than 400 pieces of original art from 21 of her books in the Northeastern Children's Literature Collection, a part of the University Libraries' Archives and Special Collections. Works from this collection and from the artist's private collection are shown in this exhibit. Miss Rumphius won the National Book Award in 1983 and inspired the creation of the Maine Library Association's Lupine Award. Cooney died on 14 March, 2000 at the age of 83. Her last book was Basket Moon published in September of 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras de Barbara Cooney

La Senorita Runfio (1982) 6,369 copias
Roxaboxen (1991) — Ilustrador — 2,555 copias
Island Boy (1988) 920 copias
Eleanor (1996) 917 copias
The Little Juggler (1961) 85 copias
Mother Goose in Spanish (1968) 13 copias

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Bambi : una vida en el bosque (1923) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones2,452 copias
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The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story (1988) — Ilustrador — 1,174 copias
Christmas in the Barn (1952) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones825 copias
The Big Book for Peace (1990) — Ilustrador — 821 copias
Wynken, Blynken, & Nod (1889) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones793 copias
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Letting Swift River Go (1992) — Ilustrador — 544 copias
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Snow-White and Rose-Red (1818) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones456 copias
The Little Fir Tree (1954) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones420 copias
Emma (1980) — Ilustrador — 409 copias
The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes (1950) — Ilustrador — 350 copias
The Crows of Pearblossom (1967) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones348 copias
The Basket Moon (1999) — Ilustrador — 320 copias
Peacock Pie (1913) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones317 copias
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1870) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones237 copias
American Folk Songs for Children (1948) — Ilustrador — 205 copias
Let's Keep Christmas (1837) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones197 copias
Where Have You Been? (1878) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones175 copias
Best in Children's Books 01 (1957) — Ilustrador — 151 copias
When the Sky is Like Lace (1975) — Ilustrador — 147 copias
The Book of Children's Classics (1997) — Ilustrador — 123 copias
Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose (1974) — Ilustrador — 119 copias
The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler's Sons (1994) — Ilustrador — 113 copias
Princess Tales (1971) — Ilustrador — 89 copias
The Penguin Book of Classic Children's Characters (1997) — Contribuidor — 88 copias
Best in Children's Books 21 (1959) — Ilustrador — 84 copias
Best in Children's Books 25 (1959) — Ilustrador — 83 copias
Friends with God; stories and prayers of the Marshall family (1900) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones78 copias
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain (1963) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones77 copias
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Just Plain Maggie (1950) — Ilustrador — 70 copias
Best in Children's Books 03 (1957) — Ilustrador — 68 copias
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Down to the Beach (1973) — Ilustrador — 50 copias
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Animal Folk Songs for Children (1950) — Ilustrador — 30 copias
Away We Go!: 100 Poems for the Very Young (1956) — Ilustrador — 22 copias
Demeter and Persephone: Homeric Hymn Number Two (1972) — Ilustrador — 22 copias
The House Mouse (1973) — Ilustrador — 21 copias
Read Me Another Story (1949) — Ilustrador — 20 copias
Read Me More Stories (1951) — Ilustrador — 20 copias
Christmas Folk (1969) — Ilustrador — 19 copias
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Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1917-08-06
Fecha de fallecimiento
2000-03-10
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Damariscotta, Maine, USA
Lugares de residencia
Long Island, New York, USA
Maine, USA
Educación
Smith College (History)
Ocupaciones
children's book author
children's book illustrator
Relaciones
Murchie, Guy (husband)
Biografía breve
Barbara Cooney was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was a stockbroker and her mother was an artist who encouraged Barbara's talent for art. She attended private schools and graduated from Smith College before briefly attending art school in New York. A year later, she got her first commission: the illustrations for Ake and His World (1940) by Bertil Malmberg. During World War II, Barbara served in the Women’s Army Corps and married Guy Murchie in 1944. They had two children. The couple later divorced and Barbara remarried in 1949 to Charles T. Porter, a physician, with whom she had two children. In the course of her long career, Barbara Cooney illustrated more than 100 books. After receiving her second Caldecott award, she began to write books as well. In her final years, she lived in a house in Maine overlooking the sea.

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RCornell | 49 reseñas más. | Oct 19, 2023 |
Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication.
 
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PlumfieldCH | 168 reseñas más. | Sep 21, 2023 |
This is a book for every child, but especially ones who live in the desert. The plot isn't complex: a group of children make an imaginary town. Playtime like this is sorely needed for our children, but nowadays, children don't always know what to do in the unstructured playtimes. And of course, the Barbara Cooney art is fantastic.
 
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mebrock | 42 reseñas más. | Aug 1, 2023 |
One of my favorite books as a child and potentially my first role-model. I still go crazy every time I find a hillside full of lupines.
 
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Kiramke | 168 reseñas más. | Jun 27, 2023 |

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