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The book had its beginnings in Cooney's delight in the colorful plumage of some exotic chickens she happened to see in the late afternoon October sunlight. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, it wasn't until she read the Nun's Priest's Tale that she realised where and how she could express this artistic impulse.
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years.She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982).
Chanticleer and the Fox is a fable that dates from the Middle Ages. Though it can be compared to Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow, it is of more recent origin.The story became well known in Europe because of its connection with several popular literary works and was eventually recorded in collections of Aesop's Fables from the time of Heinrich Steinhowel and William Caxton onwards.
The 2024 National Book Awards finalists will read from their work on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at the annual NYU Skirball event, which will be livestreamed and hosted by award-winning journalist and host ...
The National Book Awards honors the best in five fiction and nonfiction categories. Here's who is at the top of the list this year. 2024 National Book Awards finalists list announced: See which ...
At the 75 th National Book Awards, hosted in Manhattan at Cipriani Downtown last night, members of the literary community gathered to celebrate some of the year’s best writing across Fiction ...
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957; Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Netherlands) – since 1964; Guardian Award (UK) – since 1967; Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968; Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970; Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales ...
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.