It's time! 📖🪻🌊

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader,

It's time!

Sarah Mackenzie's newest book, Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World. officially lands on bookshelves everywhere today. 😍

Legendary picture book creator Barbara Cooney once noticed that the library in her little town by the sea needed attention.

A library, she knew, should be a kind of paradise. And because Barbara did whatever she set her mind to, she made it one.

Barbara Cooney was the author and/or illustrator of some of the best children's stories ever made, like Ox-Cart Man, Chanticleer and the Fox, and Miss Rumphius (just to name a few!).

Now you can read the story about the amazing woman behind all these books:

A mother of four active and creative kids
An avid gardener
An adventurous traveler
A picnicker of the first water

Because Barbara is a picture book biography about the woman behind the books.

It's a book for book lovers and beauty lovers and mamas who want to make this world just a little more beautiful.

Follow Barbara from New York to Maine, from the shores of Greece to the mountains of Appalachia, as she captures the beauty of these locations and creates some of the most magnificent books for children every published.

You can purchase a copy anywhere books are sold.

Let's have a picnic, shall we?

If you purchase Because Barbara now, you'll also get an invitation to an exclusive Zoom Book Party Picnic with Sarah Mackenzie (the author) and the illustrator, Eileen Ryan Ewen!

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After you've purchased the book, head here to enter your order details, and you'll get an invitation to an exclusive Zoom Book Party Picnic with the author and illustrator!

Yes, that rumor is TRUE! 😍

Did you know that every purchase of Because Barbara comes with a free audiobook and a videobook as well? It's true!

We can't wait for you to get your hands on this treasure of a book about one of America's best-loved and most celebrated children's book illustrators.

Get Because Barbara now.

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