The Silver Pony: A Story in Pictures is an illustrated children's book by American artist Lynd Ward, published in 1973.
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]
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]
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 variety of graphic projects, primarily in woodblocks. [3] Some work was for children's books, 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]
The Silver Pony: A Story in Pictures is an illustrated children's book by American artist Lynd Ward, published in 1973.
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]
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]
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 variety of graphic projects, primarily in woodblocks. [3] Some work was for children's books, 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]