- Fiction, Children's fiction, New england, fiction, Caldecott Medal
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family
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Earnest, classical in form, warm and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Donald Hall, Barbara Conney
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher
- Puffin Books, Live Oak Media (NY), Tandem Library
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780881036077
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“In October he backend his ox into his cart and he and his family filled it up with everything they made or grew all year long that was left over.”
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 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, and 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 regar
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