Barbara Cooney Books
A garland of games & other diversions : An alphabet book
Letters of the alphabet are introduced by illustrated verses describing colonial children at play.
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Letting Swift River Go
By Jane Yolen
Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
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Ox-Cart Man
By Donald Hall
Winner of the Caldecott MedalThus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his...
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Miss Rumphius
Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted and blossoms into a beautiful plan. This beloved classic and celebration of nature—written by a bel...
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Squawk to the moon, Little Goose
Little Goose disobeys her mother one night and almost gets swallowed by the fox.
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Island Boy
The acclaimed author of Miss Rumphius recounts the lives of four generations living on a New England coastal island and the importance of family ties.The youngest and quietest of 12 children, Matth...
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