![]() ![]() They include her love of travel, her enthusiasm for her life in Maine and her comfortable and questioning upbringing in Brooklyn. Cooney was presented with an American Book Award for "Miss Rumphius." She maintained that "Miss Rumphius" and two other books she wrote and illustrated, "Hattie and the Wild Waves" and "Island Boy," all published by the Viking Press, were autobiographical works. Cooney's adaptation of a story from Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales." Her second Caldecott, in 1980, was for her illustrations for "Ox-Cart Man," the saga of life on a 19th-century New England farm, written by Donald Hall. She received her first Caldecott Medal, a highly prestigious annual award given to the illustrator of a children's book, in 1959 for "Chanticleer and the Fox," Ms. ![]() Her last book, "Basket Moon," was published in September 1999. ![]() Cooney, whose career spanned six decades, wrote or illustrated 110 books. Barbara Cooney, 83, an author and illustrator of children's books who was the recipient of two Caldecott medals and a American Book Award, died March 10 at a hospital in Portland, Maine. ![]()
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