Working Cotton

{{short description|1992 children's book}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Working Cotton

| image = Working Cotton.jpg

| author = Sherley Anne Williams

| illustrator = Carole Byard

| cover_artist = Carole Byard

| country = United States

| language = English

| pages = 32

| genre = Children's literature

| publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

| pub_date = 1992

| isbn = 0-15-299624-9

}}

Working Cotton is a 1992 Caldecott Honor Book,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/1993honorworkingcotton|title = Working Cotton, 1993 Caldecott Honor Book|date = 8 July 2013}} Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/cskbookawards/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-all-recipients-1970-present|title = Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present|date = 5 April 2012}} and an ALA Notable Book. It was written by Sherley Anne Williams and illustrated by Carole Byard. It was based on Williams's childhood experience in the Fresno cotton fields.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sherley-anne-williams|title=Sherley Anne Williams|date=7 August 2021}}

The Gale Group, an education, advocacy, and technology company that provides advisory curricula to libraries and schools, selected Working Cotton for its 2002 compendium Teaching Children Mathematics (Vol. 8, Issue 8), published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., as they deemed the book a resource for teaching schoolchildren about increments of time and the hours on a clock.{{cite web|url=https://go.galegroup.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA84903081&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=10735836&p=AONE&sw=w|title=Working Cotton: Toward an understanding of time. (Links to Literature)}} The Working Cotton entry in the compendium is called "Working Cotton: Toward an understanding of time" and was authored by Eula Ewing Monroe, Michelle P. Orme, and Lynnette B. Erickson.