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Ox-Cart Man 
Author(s) Donald Hall Illustrator Barbara Cooney Country United States Genre(s) Children's picture book Publisher Viking Press Publication date 1979 ISBN 978-0670533282 OCLC Number 4883766 Dewey Decimal [E] 19 LC Classification PZ7.H14115 Ox 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.[1] 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.)[2] The poem and book are cyclical.
This book was featured on a Season 2 episode of Reading Rainbow.[3][4]
References
- ^ American Library Association: Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present. URL accessed 27 May 2009.
- ^ Drafts of Donald Hall's "Ox Cart Man"
- ^ Reading Rainbow Episodes
- ^ Reading Rainbow Episodes
Awards Preceded by
The Girl Who Loved Wild HorsesCaldecott Medal recipient
1980Succeeded by
FablesCategories:- 1979 books
- Caldecott Medal winners (book)
- Children's fiction books
- Children's picture book stubs
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