Ox-Cart Man
by Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney
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Author: Barbara Cooney, Donald HallBrand: Penguin Group USA
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-10-27
ISBN: 0140504419
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Puffin
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- ISBN13: 9780140504415
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A Beautiful, Comforting Story About a Family Working Together
Summary: 5 Stars
This beautifully written story follows a year in the life of a 19th-Century New England family. It echoes the style of Donald Hall's poetic version of the story, which probably preceded this book.
In the first scene, the Ox-Cart Man loads his cart with goods to drive into town: wool, knitted goods, woven flax, hand-whittled brooms, shingles, and so on. As he loads the cart, the narrator embeds brief descriptions of how the family worked to create them. On selling the goods, the man buys supplies for his family for the coming year: a needle for his daughter, a knife for his son, a cooking pot for mother, and some wintergreen candies. He returns home, and the family incorporates the new supplies into their work, which is now described in more detail. The story ends with unspoken anticipation that soon the man will load a new cart to take this year's goods to town.
The hard work of colonial life is made very attractive in this story, as the children cheerfully pitch in and the family works together to build their life and homestead. The rhythmic text is gentle and spare, with just the right tone of anticipation for what will come next. Cooney's beautiful paintings, with earth-toned colors and straight lines, evoke a feeling of peaceful simplicity that encourages the reader to look back to those bygone days with romantic nostalgia. A beautiful book.
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