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Ox-Cart Man
''Ox-Cart Man'' is a 1979 children's book written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. It won the 1980 Caldecott Medal.American Library AssociationCaldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present URL accessed 27 May 2009. The book tells of the life and work of an early 19th-century farming family in New Hampshire. The father uses an ox-cart to take their goods to market in Portsmouth, where they make the money to buy the things they need for the next year. Even the ox and cart are sold. Hall originally published "Ox-Cart Man" as a poem in the October 17, 1977 issue of ''The New Yorker''. Hall revised the poem greatly to create the children's book and chose Barbara Cooney for its illustrations. Cooney had already illustrated another Caldecott Medal-winning book, '' Chanticleer and the Fox''. Both the earlier version of the poem and the book are cyclical in narrative and theme. This book was featured on a Season 2 episode of ''Reading Rainbow ''Reading Rainbow'' is an Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Hall
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Hall was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, and Christ Church, Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of ''The Paris Review'' (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft. On June 14, 2006, Hall was appointed as the Library of Congress's 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (commonly known as "Poet Laureate of the United States"). He is regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," and it has been said that, in his work, he "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects nabiding reverence for nature."Poetry Foundation (Chicago, Illinois). Biography: Donald Hall (found onlinhere (Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fables (Lobel Book)
''Fables'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by American author Arnold Lobel. Released by Harper & Row in 1980, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1981.American Library AssociationCaldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present URL accessed 27 May 2009. For each of the twenty fables, Lobel's text occupies one page, with his color illustration on the facing page. He gives a moral to each, but while the moral is genuine, the tone of the fables is cheerful and playful rather than moralistic. For instance, in the first fable a bed-loving crocodile admires the orderly pattern of flowers on his bedroom wallpaper. When confronted with the riot of flowers in Mrs. Crocodile's garden he retreats to his bed in distress, where he is comforted by the neat floral rows of the wallpaper. After that he seldom leaves his bed, becoming a sickly shade of green. The moral is, "Without a doubt, there is such a thing as too much order." List of Fables *The Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Picture Books
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Viking Press Books
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Picture Books By Barbara Cooney
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Children's Fiction Books
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Caldecott Medal–winning Works
Caldecott may refer to: Awards * The Caldecott Medal, an award for children's book illustration named after Randolph Caldecott People * Caldecott (surname) Places * Caldecott, Cheshire, England * Caldecott, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom * Caldecott, Oxfordshire, a district of Abingdon, England * Caldecott, Rutland, United Kingdom * Caldecott Tunnel, California, United States * Caldecott Hill Caldecott Hill is a private housing estate, located along Thomson Road in the Central Region of Singapore. The estate is served by Caldecott MRT station, on both the Circle and Thomson-East Coast MRT lines. Background Etymology Caldecott Hill ..., Singapore, home of the headquarters of MediaCorp * Caldecott MRT station, an underground Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore * Caldecott Road, Hong Kong, a road named after Andrew Caldecott See also * Caldecote (other) * Caldecotte, a district in the parish of Walton, Milton Keynes, in ceremonial Buckingha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Children's Books
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** In 1979, the United States officially severed diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). This decision marked a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, turning to view the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate representative of China. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full Sino-American relations, diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, France, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's Chrysler Europe, European operations, which are based in United Kingdom, Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 6 – Geylang Bahru family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1980. Events *March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française. * June 5 **The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of '' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', adapted from Charles Dickens's novel by David Edgar. ** Willy Russell's comedy '' Educating Rita'' opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London. *September – A production of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theatre history. * September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's '' Translations'', at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland. * November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
''The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses'', written and illustrated by Paul Goble, is a children's picture book originally released by Bradbury Press in 1978. It was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1979.American Library AssociationCaldecott Medal Winners, 1938 – Present URL accessed 27 May 2009 As of 1993, the book has been published by Simon & Schuster. Description The book's 31 pages contains full-color, double-paged pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, reproduced in combined line and halftone lithograph. The font of the text is set in 12 pt. Century Schoolbook. Each page measures 8"x10". Plot The story focuses on a young Native American girl who has a deep affinity for wild horses. She cares for the horses that her tribe relies on for the nomadic hunting of buffalo. One day, the herd stampedes due to a thunderstorm, while the girl is among them. She climbs onto the back of one of the horses, and is carried far away from their usual grazing ground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Cooney
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on ''Chanticleer and the Fox'' (1958) and ''Ox-Cart Man'' (1979), and a National Book Award for '' Miss Rumphius'' (1982). Her books have been translated into ten 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. Life 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 Long Island when she was two, where she attended Buckley Country Day School and later boarding school. She started drawing and painting early in life, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading Rainbow
''Reading Rainbow'' is an American educational children's television series that originally aired on PBS and afterward PBS Kids from July 11, 1983 to November 10, 2006, with reruns continuing to air until August 28, 2009. 155 30-minute episodes were produced over 23 seasons. Before its official premiere, the show aired for test audiences in the Nebraska and Buffalo, New York markets (their PBS member stations, the Nebraska ETV ow Nebraska Public Mediaand WNED-TV, respectively, were co-producers of the show). The purpose of the show was to encourage a love of books and reading among children. In 2012, an iPad and Kindle Fire educational interactive book reading and video field trip application was launched bearing the name of the program. The public television series garnered over 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody Award and 26 Emmy Awards, 10 of which were in the "Outstanding Children's Series" category. The concept of a reading series for children originated with Twila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
