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.

A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.

A young girl from Brooklyn, New York, enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves.

A classic lullaby poem about three fishermen who try to catch the stars in nets of silver and gold.

After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

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