Posts Tagged ‘Barbara Cooney’
Way Back Wednesday Essential Classic
Chanticleer and the Fox By Barbara Cooney “Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” Remember that line please, for it provides a perfect introduction via this anonymous quote, to another essential classic in our Way Back Wednesday essential canon of picture book not to be missed classics. Flattery is…
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Ox-Cart Man By Donald Hall, Pictures by Barbara Cooney My Way Back Wednesday selection, “Ox-Cart Man”, portrays the cycle of the seasons of the agricultural year through the daily lives of a family fully invested in the land. It won the Caldecott Medal in 1980 as best picture book of that year. Here’s a…
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The Man Who Didn’t Wash His Dishes By Phyllis Krasilovsky; illustrated by Barbara Cooney Who knew that in 1950 a prescient picture book could deal a bit absurdly and delightfully with the very topic reality shows flaunt –clutter! Two-time Caldecott winning illustrator Barbara Cooney who won for Ox-car Man and Chanticleer and the Fox…
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Miss Rumphius Story and Pictures by Barbara Cooney As December 6th nears and with it the Feast of St. Nicholas, I am reminded of the simple dedication found in the pages of a picture book by Barbara Cooney which was winner of the American Book Award in 1982 and a New York Times Book of…
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