Caldecott
Author: -Donald Hall
Title: -Ox Cart Man
Illustrator: -Barbara Cooney
Publisher: -Penguin Group
Year: -1983
Format: -Hard Cover
Genre: -Picture
Reading Level: -Emergent Reader
Interest Level: -Early Elementary
Topics: -Selling goods and also buying things you need. Working together with the family to make a living.
Summary: - The dad, mom, brother, and sister all help papa pack up the wagon with all of last years goods. Papa travels into town and sells everything he went in with even his ox and cart. Once he sells everything he goes and buys new things for his family that they can use while preparing the new things they will make for next year. When he gets home he hands out the new gifts and they start working on the things for next year. Papa makes a new cart for the young ox, brother makes brooms, sister make clothing, and mama cooks on her new pot. They all work together to make next years goods they will be selling or trading.
Illustrator: -Barbara Cooney
Publisher: -Penguin Group
Year: -1983
Format: -Hard Cover
Genre: -Picture
Reading Level: -Emergent Reader
Interest Level: -Early Elementary
Topics: -Selling goods and also buying things you need. Working together with the family to make a living.
Summary: - The dad, mom, brother, and sister all help papa pack up the wagon with all of last years goods. Papa travels into town and sells everything he went in with even his ox and cart. Once he sells everything he goes and buys new things for his family that they can use while preparing the new things they will make for next year. When he gets home he hands out the new gifts and they start working on the things for next year. Papa makes a new cart for the young ox, brother makes brooms, sister make clothing, and mama cooks on her new pot. They all work together to make next years goods they will be selling or trading.
Extension Activities: -Have the children show something they made have made at home with their parents.
Have them draw a picture of something they would like to know how to make.
Tell the class what they do with their parents that are fun to them.
