Winner of the Caldecott Medal 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...
Winner of the Caldecott Medal 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...
This beautifully illustrated children's book recreates the mood of 19th-century rural New England. It begins in October when a farmer and his family fill it up their ox cart with everything they made or grew all year long that was left over: a bag of wool, a shaw and mittens,...