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==Works== <!-- this list is intended to be complete 2013-02-12 it lists her top 20 books in WorldCat participating libraries (see footer link) and 4 others: The Magic Maker; Foxfire; Mandrake; Jethro and the Jumbie (plus the forthcoming 2013)and finally King Of Shadows. --> === Biography === * ''J. B. Priestley: Portrait of an Author'' (London: Heinemann, 1970) β biography of the English writer and socialist [[John Boynton Priestley]]<ref name=LCC1970> [http://lccn.loc.gov/72548740 "J. B. Priestley: Portrait of an Author"]. Library of Congress Catalog Record ('''LCC'''). Retrieved 2013-02-12.</ref> * ''The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff and His Christmas Revels'' ([[Candlewick Press]], 2011) β juvenile biography of [[John Langstaff]], founder of the ''[[Revels]]'' performances<ref name=LCC2011> According to the publisher description, Cooper is "a friend and writer for the Revels".<br /> [http://lccn.loc.gov/2010053682 "The Magic Maker: a Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas ..."]. LCC record. Retrieved 2013-02-12.</ref> === Other nonfiction === * ''Behind the Golden Curtain: A View of the USA'' (Hodder & Stoughton and Scribner's, 1965)<ref name=cooper/> * ''Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children'' (Simon & Schuster, 1996)<ref name=cooper/> === Drama === * ''Foxfire'', Cooper and Hume Cronyn (Samuel French Inc, 1982), stage playbook<ref name=cooper/> β produced on Broadway as ''[[Foxfire (play)|Foxfire]]'' (1982)<ref name=ibdb> {{ibdb title|4192|Foxfire}}. Retrieved 2012-03-15.</ref> β based on the [[Foxfire books]] Cooper wrote four screenplays produced for television, one supernatural tale for children and three more adaptations of books about Appalachia (as ''Foxfire'').<ref name=cooper/> * ''Dark Encounter'' (''Shadows'', Series 2; Thames Television, 1976) * ''The Dollmaker'' (ABC, 1984) * ''To Dance with the White Dog'' (Hallmark, 1993) * ''Jewel'' (CBS, 2001) {{Col-begin}} {{Col-break}} === Novels=== ;''The Dark Is Rising'' {{main|The Dark Is Rising Sequence}} * ''[[Over Sea, Under Stone]]'' (1965) * ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' (1973) * ''[[Greenwitch]]'' (1974) * ''[[The Grey King]]'' (1975) * ''[[Silver on the Tree]]'' (1977) ;''Boggart'' *''[[The Boggart]]'' (1993) <!--with Scottish legend--> *''The Boggart and the Monster'' (1997) <!--with Scottish legend--> *''The Boggart Fights Back'' (2018) <!--with Scottish legend--> ;Other *''Mandrake'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964), science fiction for adults<ref name=cooper/> *''Dawn of Fear'' (1970), autobiographical World War II story<ref name=cooper/> *''Seaward'' (1983) <!--with Celtic myth--> *''[[King of Shadows]]'' (1999) <!--time-slip historical novel, London 1599--> *''Green Boy'' (2002) *''Victory'' (June 2006) <!--time-slip historical novel, Trafalgar 1805--> * ''Ghost Hawk'' (2013) {{Col-break}} ===Children's picture books=== *''Jethro and the Jumbie'' (1979), illustrated by [[Ashley Bryan]] *''The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale'' (1983), illustrated by [[Warwick Hutton]] *''The Selkie Girl'' (1986), illustrated by Warwick Hutton, a retelling of the [[Selkie]] legend *''Matthew's Dragon'' (1991), illustrated by [[Joseph A. Smith (artist)|Jos. A. Smith]] *''Tam Lin'' (1991), illustrated by Warwick Hutton, a retelling of the [[Tam Lin]] legend *''Danny and the Kings'' (1993), illustrated by Jos. A. Smith *''Frog'' (2002), illustrated by Jane Browne *''The Magician's Boy'' (2005), adapting her short play for the 1988 Revels,<ref name=cooper/> illustrated by Serena Riglietti *''The Word Pirates'' (2019), illustrated by [[Steven Kellogg]] *''The Shortest Day'' (2019), illustrated by [[Carson Ellis]] {{col-end}} ===Short fiction=== * "Muffin", Amy Ehrlich, ed., ''When I Was Your Age: Original Stories about Growing Up (Volume 1)'' (Candlewick) β story set in World War II England (as ''Dawn of Fear'') * "Ghost Story", ''Don't Read This!'' (US, Front Street), ''Fingers on the Back of the Neck'' (UK, Puffin) β collection supporting IBBY * ''Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out'' (Candlewick) β Cooper wrote one piece of this mixed-genre NCBLA collaboration * ''The Exquisite Corpse Adventure'' (Candlewick) β Cooper wrote one episode of this sequential story collaboration of children's authors and illustrators by NCBLA for the LC website * "The Caretakers", ''Haunted'' (Anderson Press collection, UK only)
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