Barbara Cooney

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--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Rhyming text relating the birth of Jesus Christ in a barn among farm animals.

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

Describes the strange and splendid things that can happen on a bimulous night when the sky is like lace.

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.

A poor cobbler and his three sons worry about having food for their Christmas feast, until a playful goblin king pays them a visit.