Ox-Cart Man
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| Author | Donald Hall |
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| Illustrator | Barbara Cooney |
| Country | United States |
| Genre(s) | Children's picture book |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | 1979 |
| ISBN | (ISBN 978-0670533282) |
Ox-Cart Man is the title of a 1979 book written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. It won the 1980 Caldecott Medal. The book deals with an 18th century farming family that uses an ox-cart to take their goods to market, where they make the money to buy the things they need.
Ox-Cart Man was originally published in an October 3, 1977 edition of The New Yorker as a Donald Hall poem. Hall revised the poem greatly to create the children's book and chose Barbara Cooney for its illustrations (Cooney was the illustrator of another Caldecott Medal-winning book, Chanticleer and the Fox.[1]).
This book was featured on a Season 2 episode of Reading Rainbow. [2] [3]
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| Preceded by The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
Caldecott Medal recipient 1980 |
Succeeded by Fables |
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