![]() Twenty-one years later, Cooney again won the Caldecott Medal for Ox-Cart Man written by Donald Hall. It was for her adaptation of Chaucer's The Nun Priest's Tale that she won the prestigious Caldecott Medal, the highest honor given for illustrated children's books in the United States, in 1959. By this time, Cooney was illustrating several books a year and wrote one now and then. ![]() The couple bought a farm in Pepperell, Massachusetts where they ran a children's camp during the summer months. ![]() She enrolled in officer training and achieved the rank of second lieutenant, but was honorably discharged the following spring because of marriage pregnancy. Recalling an earlier trip to Germany before the war and the horrors that she had seen there, she felt compelled to join the Women's Army Corps during the summer of 1942. Just one year after graduation, she had her first commission, the illustrations for Ake and His World by Bertil Malmberg. Cooney graduated from Smith College in 1938 and studied lithography and etching at Art Students League in New York. Cooney attended a boarding school as a child. ![]() She grew up on Long Island, but spent her summers as a child in Maine. Barbara Cooney and her twin brother were born on 6 August 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, in the Bossert Hotel. ![]()
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