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.

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

As a child Great-aunt Alice Runfio 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.

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

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

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

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.

A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son.

After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.