Most Popular Books by Barbara Cooney

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

Pam and Penny Kellyhorn are eleven-year-old twins, one living with an aunt, the other with their father and cousin, in small towns in Maine and have just met, but it doesn''t take them long to learn to be sisters as together they help bring an arsonist tojustice, and try to rekindle the romance between Aunt Ivory and Puppa.

Sitting on her grandfather''s lap, a little girl vowed to fulfill three dreams in her lifetime: travel to distant lands, live by the sea and help make the world a better place. As she grew older, she traveled to faraway countries and settled down in a house by the sea. But still, she could not think of a way to make the world a better place. Until one day, with the help of the wind and elements, she was struck by a revelation. A book about hope and rebirth by Barbara Cooney, winner of the Caldecott medal.

When Cherry visits her Great-aunt Freddy in Maine, she uncovers a mystery and starts a chain of events that revolutionizes her own life and the lives of those around her.

Literary mss., typescripts, correspondence, legal papers, periodical publications, personal papers, diaries, illustrations, and photographs relating to Margaret Wise Brown, her writings, and personal life. Series I includes published stories, poems, and songs, both handwritten and typed, often with Brown''s notes, also some book dummies for some of her works; Series II contains unpublished poems and songs, essays and stories, ideas for records, plays, radio and television programs, musical scores with words by Brown and music by Elizabeth Randolph or Dorothy Cadzow, and composition books with ideas for stories, notes, and thoughts, grouped by format and arranged alphabetically within format; Series III. Correspondence with letters to and from Brown; IV: Muscellaneous papers containing Brown''s college papers and creative stories, notes from writing workshops in which she participated including notes on how children related to her writing, and book reviews and articles on her work clipped from newspapers; Series V: Illustrations, generally in storyboard form, for a few of Margaret Wise Brown''s published works, including the complete storyboard for The Little Brass Band and assorted illustrations for several other books including The Little Fir Tree, also including work by Barbara Cooney and Clement Hurd; VI: materials about Brown including articles, theses, and mss., grouped by format; and VII: Photographs containing black and white photos of Brown, from her childhood until shortly before her death as well as images of her homes in New York City and Maine.