Basket Moon is the title of a 1999 children's book by Mary Lyn Ray. It was illustrator Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney was an American children's author and illustrator of more than 200 books and double Caldecott Medalist. She has written books for six decades...

's last book, published six months before she died. The book details a 19th-century boy who makes baskets and sells them in town, similar to Cooney's earlier book, Ox-Cart Man

Ox-Cart Man

Ox-Cart Man is the title of a 1979 book written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. It won the 1980 Caldecott Medal. The book deals with an 18th century farming family that uses an ox-cart to take their goods to market, where they make the money to buy the things they need.Ox-Cart Man...

. One magazine praised the book for being "quiet and beautiful".