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Ox-cart man

Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hall, Donald, 1928-2018
Other Authors:	Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000
Format:	Kits Kit Books Print Book Kit Audiobooks Kit
Language:	English
Published:	Pine Plains, N.Y. : Live Oak Media, c1979.
Subjects:	Caldecott medal book. New England > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.
Item Description:	Narration with or without page turn signals.
Physical Description:	1 sound disc (7 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.)
Awards:	1980 Caldecott medal.
ISBN:	9781591127970 1591127971
Author Notes:	Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 20, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1951. His first collection of poetry, Exiles and Marriages, was published in 1955. His other collections included Without, The Museum of Clear Ideas, and The Painted Bed. He received several awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for The One Day, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Happy Man, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. He served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1962 and was the United States poet laureate for 2006-2007. He was also a memoirist, an essayist, and the author of textbooks and children's books. His memoirs were entitled Life Work and Unpacking the Boxes. His children's book, Ox-Cart Man illustrated by Barbara Cooney, won the Caldecott Medal. He received a National Medal of Arts in 2011. He died on June 23, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography)