| | 7,643 (55,211) | 1,132 | 2,745 |  (4.05) | 4 | 0 | 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 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) — biography from Miss Rumphius … (more) |
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Barbara Cooney has 1 past event. (show)  Saturday, May 17, 10AM - 4PM: Indies First Storytime Day! In celebration of Children's Book Week, Wild Rumpus is hosting a doozy of a line-up of awesome authors. But this time, they won't be reading books they've written. They'll each pick their all time favorite stories and read them aloud. It's an all day storytime extravaganza! Here's the schedule for the day. Come to one or come to all! 10:00AM: Stephanie Watson (reading It's a Tiger by David LaRochelle and To Be Like the Sun by Susan Marie Swanson) 10:30AM: Lauren Stringer (reading Spork, Virginia Wolf and Mr. Flux by Kyo Maclear) 11:00AM: Phyllis Root (reading picture books) 11:30AM: Sheila O'Connor (reading Sheila Rae, the Brave by Kevin Henkes and Where Does the Night Hide by Nancy Carlstrom) 12:00PM: Anne Ursu (reading Toot Toot Zoom! by Phyllis Root and The Best Pet of All by David LaRochelle) 12:30PM: William Alexander 1-1:30PM: INTERMISSION 1:30PM: Debra Frasier (reading Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney and Deer Dancer by Mary Lyn Ray and Lauren Stringer) 2:00PM: Nancy Carlson (reading Boss Baby by Marla Frazee and One Monday Morning by Uri Shulevitz) 2:30PM: Pat Schmatz (reading the opening pages of The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton) 3:00PM: Erin Soderberg (reading The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems) 3:30PM: Stephen Shaskan (reading Moo! by David LaRochelle and Mike Wohnoutka and Freight train by Donald Crews)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Cause of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | 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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