[a] She won the 1971 Caldecott Medal for A Story a Story (Atheneum Books, 1970), which she retold from an African folktale,[2] and the 1976 Kate Greenaway Medal for The Post Office Cat, her own historical fiction about a London post office.
She studied at Richmond Professional Institute and the University of Virginia (graphics and painting).
[5] It was printed from wood and linoleum blocks in a limited edition of 1000 that she helped bind and sell.
[1] As of 1999, Haley and her husband David Considine were Media Literacy consultants and co-authors.
[7] For at least three decades Haley has "presented workshops, storytelling, art demonstrations and puppetry programs in schools and libraries throughout the USA, Canada, England and Australia.