The Silver Pony
The Silver Pony: A Story in Pictures is an illustrated children's book by American artist Lynd Ward, published in 1973.
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Summary
The story tells of a farmboy who finds a silver winged pony, which he lures with an apple and then flies through forests, deserts, cities, and into outer space. The boy awakens to discover it all a dream—but that in waking life his father has bought him a real silver pony.[1]
Production, publication, and reception
Ward executed the 80 wordless drawings that make up the book in casein.[2] It was published in 1973 by Houghton, Mifflin.[3]
Though it shares the form and length of Ward's wordless novels, it is not classified as one.[4] The book won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Children's Book Showcase Award,[5] and was a Boston Globe–Horn Picturebook Honor Book.[6]
Background
Ward first rose to public attention with the publication of Gods' Man in 1929, a wordless novel in engraved woodblocks. He made five more, the last of which was Vertigo in 1937, after which he worked on a veriety of graphic projects, primarily in woodblocks.[3] Some work was for children's book, for which he won awards such as a Newbery Medal for his illustrations to Elizabeth Coatsworth's The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1930), and a Caldecott Medal for his The Biggest Bear (1952).[7] The Silver Pony was the first wordless book Ward published since he had produced Vertigo.[2]
References
- ↑ Houp 2003, p. 10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Beronä 2010, p. vi.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rights 1995, p. 430.
- ↑ Houp 2003, p. 11.
- ↑ Martin 2015, p. 263.
- ↑ Galda et al. 2013, p. 410.
- ↑ Houp 2003, pp. 16–17.
Works cited
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