Barbara cooney biography
Barbara cooney biography
Barbara cooney biography for kids.
Barbara Cooney
American writer and illustrator of children's books
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years.
She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982). Her books have been translated into ten languages.[1]
For her contribution as a children's illustrator, Cooney was the U.S.
nominee in 1994 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books.[2][3]
Life
Cooney was born on 6 August 1917 in Room 1127 of the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn, New York,[1] to Russell Schenck Cooney (a stockbroker) and his wife Mae Evelyn Bossert (a painter).
She had a twin brother and two younger brothers. Her family moved to Long Island when she was two,[4