Miss Rumphius was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year in 1982.Īfter growing up on Long Island and spending cherished childhood summers with her family in Maine, she took every course offered in studio art and art history at Smith College. She also was honored as the official United States Nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal - the children's book equivalent of being nominated for a Nobel Prize. She was honored with the American Book Award for Miss Rumphius, and over the years she has received six major awards for her complete body of work. Miss Cooney twice won the prestigious Caldecott Medal given by the American Library Association for Best Illustrated Book of the Year, first for her retelling of Chaucer's Chanticleer and the Fox, and second, for Ox-cart Man, written by famed New England poet Donald Hall. A long-time resident of Maine, her literary works have frequently focused on the culture, history and society of her adopted state her books Miss Rumphius, Island Boy, Captain Pottle's House, and King of Wreck Island are all set there. Her first book was published in 1940, and her 110th book, Basket Moon, was published in September of 1999. Throughout her long and internationally recognized career of sixty years, Barbara Cooney has been at the forefront of the children's books publishing industry. Cooney was 83 years of age.īarbara Cooney was born in Room 1127 of the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn, New York in 1917, the daughter of Mae Bossert Cooney and Russell Schenck Cooney. New York, NY) Barbara Cooney, renowned children's book author and illustrator, died on Friday, March 10 after a lengthy illness at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.
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