Barbara Cooney

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

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

Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island out in the bay.

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; she does them all, the last being the hardest of all.

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

A collection of nursery rhymes, each in both English and Spanish, collected from the Spanish community in the Americas, many with instructions for accompanying finger plays or other activities.

When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.

Includes The Flea, Four Brothers Who Were Both Wise and Foolish, The Half-Chick, The Carlanco, Juan Cigarron, and The Enchanted Mule.

Players in pigtails: Katie Casey, a fictional character, helps start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II. Miss Rumphius: 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...