Title: Ox Cart Man
Author: Donald Hall
Illustrator: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Viking Press
Year: 1979
Awards/Accolades: Caldecott Medal
Summary:
One October, a man loads his cart with the food and gods his family produced during the last year. He walks to town, sells everything, buys few supplies and returns home to begin producing more goods and food for the next harvest season.
Use in Classroom/Library:
Read aloud; practice prediction: why is he loading his cart? why does he count out the potatoes? whay does he sell his ox & cart? What will he do without them? Scholastic Discussion Guide
Curriculum Connections:
Lessons from Scholastic, SMART technologies (for interactive board)
This title is in the Saint Joseph School Library.
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