6/27/2023 0 Comments Barbara cooney art![]() ![]() Knowing the story so well, I wondered how to respond creatively to something already so imbued with meaning for me. No doubt that’s a big reason why the picture came to mind and wouldn’t leave. We scraped together the money to purchase one, and it’s been hanging on our wall ever since. ![]() In addition to donating a significant sum of money, she allowed the library to sell numbered prints of the above illustration from Miss Rumphius. Cooney was instrumental in funding the new town library. She occasionally read aloud to children at the library. She was a familiar site around town, a slight woman with her long white hair braided into a coronet upon her head. Barbara Cooney, the author/illustrator, was a local resident in the last town we lived in. ![]() Miss Rumphius, set on the coast of Maine, has long been a favorite in our family for the heartwarming story and the wonderful, often familiar, illustrations. Illustration from Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney ![]()
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