Susan Cooper

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Susan Cooper has 64 books on Goodreads with ratings. Susan Cooper’s most popular book is The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2). Susan Cooper is best known for her acclaimed Susan Cooper book fantasy sequence "The Dark is Rising," which won a Newbery Medal, a Newbery Susan Cooper book Award, and two Carnegie Honor Awards.

Her newest books are 2 picturebooks: "The Shortest Day" (her classic solstice poem, illustrated by Carson Ellis), and "The Word Pirates," illustrated by Steven Kellogg. Susan Cooper is the creator and writer of the fantasy series, the Dark is Rising fictional novels.

This series kicked off in with the release of the first novel. It was the only one to be nominated that year for a Newbery Honor Medal. The sequel came out in The third book came out the next year and is titled Greenwitch.

Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" () Susan Cooper was born inand grew up in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London.

As a child, she loved to read, as 4/5. Looking for books by Susan Cooper. See all books authored by Susan Cooper, including Over Sea, Under Stone, and The Dark is Rising, and more on Susan Cooper is an English fantasy author best know for The Dark is Rising series.

She was the recipient of the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association which recognized her for her contribution to writing for teens. Cooper wrote her first book for young readers in response to a publishing house competition; Over Sea, Under Stone would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed five-book fantasy sequence, The Dark Is Rising.

The fourth book in the series, The Grey King, won the Newbery Medal in By that time, Susan Cooper had been living in America for 13 years, having moved to marry her first husband, an. Susan Cooper -- the complete book list.

Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. Susan Cooper’s iconic solstice poem captures the magic behind returning seasonal light, the yearning for rituals connecting us with the generations before—and hope for peace we carry into the future.

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After she had graduated from the University, Susan Cooper worked as a reporter for the Sunday Times and wrote during her free time. During this period, Cooper began working on her very first series; The Dark is Rising. She also finished her very first novel, Mandrake which was published in the yearHodder and Stoughton.

Susan Cooper Books Susan Cooper is a renowned British author who wrote ‘The Dark is Rising’. Born in in Buckinghamshire at a time when it was mostly a green countryside, her father, John Richard Cooper worked at the Natural History Museum before he was drawn into the Second World War.

Susan Cooper's novel, King of Shadows, was awarded a Boston Globe -- Horn Book Honor. Born in England, Susan Cooper was a reporter and feature writer for the London Sunday Times before coming to live in the United States. Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children’s authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide.

Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for Book Edition: Boxed Set. Susan Cooper’s brilliant The Dark Is Rising Sequence series has enthralled readers with its epic tale of the battles between the Dark and the Light, the warring factions of good and evil.

Latest Book in Series. The Boggart is a children's novel by Susan Cooper published in by Macmillan. The book was nominated for a Young Reader's Choice Award in It tells the tale of a family from Canada, the Volniks, who inherit a castle in Scotland.

They soon discover that, together with the castle, they also seem to have inherited a mischievous spirit: a boggart. Susan Cooper was born on 23 May in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England. Her most famous for her The Dark is Rising book series. Susan Cooper’s mother was a teacher, her father worked in the Natural History Museum, then went to fight in World War 1.

View the profiles of people named Susan Cooper. Join Facebook to connect with Susan Cooper and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to. The fourth book in the series, The Grey King, won the Newbery Medal in By that time, Susan Cooper had been living in America for 13 years, having moved to marry her first husband, an American professor, and was stepmother to three children and the mother of two.

The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by Susan Cooper. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is /5. Susan Cooper, Marshfield Hills, MA. 4, likes 1 talking about this. Susan Cooper, author of the classic "The Dark is Rising" ers: K.King of Shadows by Susan Cooper is a tale about a young boy's journey to overcome his devastating past in exchange for a hopeful future.

Nat is an orphan who escapes into the world of the theatre to avoid his sadness. Nat is magically transported back to Elizabethan England, where he becomes.Susan Cooper has yet to equal "The Dark is Rising," the second book of her classic Dark is Rising Sequence. Too bad the movie adaptation looks like a hollow "Harry Potter" ripoff.

That whole attitude betrays the beauty and spirit of her second "Dark is Rising Sequence" novel, which is independent of her the first book "Over Sea Under Stone."Cited by: 5.