Ox-Cart Man is a 1979 children's book written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney.

[1] The book tells of the life and work of an early 19th-century farming family in New Hampshire.

The father uses an ox-cart to take their goods to market in Portsmouth, where they make the money to buy the things they need for the next year.

Hall originally published "Ox-Cart Man" as a poem in the October 17, 1977 issue of The New Yorker.

Hall revised the poem greatly to create the children's book and chose Barbara Cooney for its illustrations.