Barbara Cooney

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Lyrical text relates the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a twentieth-century farm.

Presents the story of a deer as he learns to survive the hardships of life in the forest.

A young girl from Brooklyn, New York, enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves.

Snow-White, fair-haired, quiet and shy and Rose-Red, dark-haired, outspoken and lively, are two little girls living with their mother in a small cottage by the woods. They give shelter on a winter night to a kindly bear, who treats them gently and returns every night. In the summer the girls encounter a wicked dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. Freeing the dwarf, the girls are met with loud ungrateful recriminations for cutting his beard. More...

A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.

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.

Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly.

A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

Retells the legend of the little juggler's search for a special Christmas gift for the Christ Child and the Blessed Mother.