Cooney and her brother spent a lot of time playing with neighborhood friends, and she also enjoyed music and reading. "Children's books were very warm and satisfying for me; they always had happy endings," the author confessed. "Adult books didn't, and I hated making the transition. For years I'd sneak back into the children's room of the library to get some little, comforting story."
Cooney enjoyed her teenage years, and was an active and successful student. The transition to college proved more difficult, however, for she discovered that "in a group of terrific kids, I didn't stand out," as she related in her interview. "The thought of being average had never even occurred to me, so my ego took a terrific beating." When she fell in love with a man she met at work, she decided to leave college to get married and start a family--not an uncommon choice for a woman in the 1960s. By the time she was twenty-five, she had two children and a household to manage.
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