Make Way for Ducklings
Make Way for Ducklings
Written by Robert McCloskey
New York, Viking, 1941
9.5" x 12.5"
Kerlan Collection, Children's Literature Research Collections
University of Minnesota Libraries
Based on a true story, the quintessential picture book about Boston was created in the Greenwich Village studio that Robert McCloskey shared with another future Caldecott Medal winner, Marc Simont. McCloskey's training as a muralist is evident in this sweeping panorama in the Caldecott galloping-horseman tradition. A stickler about naturalistic detail, McCloskey kept live ducklings in his studio bathtub for months as he sketched their movements and anatomy.
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