Barbara Cooney
3) Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the difficult childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who suffered the loss of both parents and had to overcome shyness and loneliness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Ox-cart man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
15) Roxaboxen
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
16) Basket moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Emily
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.