Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney (Artist)
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(Hardcover)
- Age Range: 4 to 8
- Pub. Date: October 1979
- 4pp
- Sales Rank: 33,840
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 1979
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Hardcover, 4pp
- Sales Rank: 33,840
- Age Range: 4 to 8
- ISBN-13: 9780670533282
- ISBN: 0670533289
- Edition Number: 1
Synopsis
Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the linen they wove. He packs the birch brooms his son carved, and even a bag of goose feathers from the barnyard geese.
He travels over hills, through valleys, by streams, past farms and villages. At Portsmouth Market he sells his goods, one by one - even his beloved ox. Then, with his pockets full of coins, he wanders through the market, buying provisions for his family, and returns to his home. And the cycle begins again.
Donald Hall has created a gentle story, evoking a quiet time in American life that is irrevocably past. Using a special method which resembles the early American technique of painting on wood, Barbara Cooney has captured the sense of peace of early nineteenth-century New England and the bustle of Portsmouth Market.
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Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.
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Ox-Cart Manby Anonymous
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April 30, 2007: I enjoyed this book as a child and I enjoy it just as much now because it shows hard work and the importance of doing what you need to but it also gives children a glimpse of how a book that tells different histories will be laid out. Hall, Donald. OX-CART MAN. New York: Puffin, 1979.
Ox-Cart Manby Anonymous
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April 23, 2007: Living on a farm can be quite tough. Every year it is the same routine. 'In October he backed his ox into his cart and he and his family filled it up with everything they made or grew all year long that was left over.' What will the Ox-Cart man bring back? Will he be able to start the Process all over again? Read and find out. This book is an older book meant for ages 4-8. This book is really enjoyale becuase it tells about how life was in the olden days. I think that the illustartions are wonderful and very nice. Hall, Donald. OX-CART MAN. New York: Puffin, 1979.
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