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Author Hall, Donald, 1928-2018, author.

Title Ox-cart man / by Donald Hall ; pictures by Barbara Cooney.

Publication Info. New York : Viking Press, 1979.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Easy Hall Ox- 1979    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Edition First edition.
Description 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
age Children
Note Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 - March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years. She won two Caldecott Medals, which are awarded to the year's best-illustrated U.S. picture book, and a National Book Award. Her books have been translated into 10 languages. For her contribution as a children's illustrator, Cooney was the U.S. nominee in 1994 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. Cooney was born on 6 August 1917 in Room 1127 of the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn, New York, to Russell Schenck Cooney (a stockbroker) and his wife Mae Evelyn Bossert (a painter). She had a twin brother and two younger brothers. Her family moved to Connecticut, where she attended Buckley Country Day School and later Boarding School. Cooney graduated from Smith College with a history degree, but continued working at art, taking classes on etching and lithography at the Art Students League of New York. During World War II, Cooney served in the Women's Army Corps. Soon after her service, she met and married Guy Murchie (Jr) in 1944. They had two children, Gretel and Barnaby. She later divorced. In July 1949 she married Charles Talbot Porter; they had two children together: Phoebe and Charlie Porter. Beginning in her 40s, Cooney frequently traveled, gaining inspiration for illustrations and her writing. At home, she lived in Damariscotta, Maine, in a house built for her by one of her sons.
Primitive/folk art about era or culture; style indicative of that era.
Summary Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
Awards Caldecott Medal, 1980
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Farm life -- Juvenile fiction.
Farm life.
Domestic animals -- Juvenile fiction.
Domestic animals.
Seasons -- Juvenile fiction.
Seasons.
New England -- Juvenile fiction.
New England.
Caldecott Medal books.
New England -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Caldecott Medal Honor book -- 1980.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1979.
Picture books.
Fiction.
Added Author Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000, illustrator.
Viking Press, publisher.
Other Form: Online version: Hall, Donald, 1928- Ox-cart man. 1st ed. New York : Viking Press, 1979 (OCoLC)608075399
ISBN 0670533289 (hardcover)
9780670533282 (hardcover)