Ducklings

I feel ill that Robert McCloskey's books (including Make Way for Ducklings is listed here.

Reading for Young Sheep Roger Sutton 2006

Created in 1837, it was the inspiration for Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, which is now the official children's book of Massachusetts.

unknown title 2009

I have always thought that we parents of a certain age owe our fondness for "Ducklings" and "Mike Mulligan" to the fact that Captain Kangaroo frequently showed those wonderful Weston Woods movie-ettes for these and other great picture books.

Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack 2005

Apparently another bunch of collegiate drunks have stolen another of the Make Way for Ducklings statues from Boston Common.

I Think This One Would Be Named Thwack 2009

Curiously, this proposal wasn't initiated by a set of schoolkids cajoled into proposing a state symbol as part of a unit on government, the way the "third grade class at the Dean S. Luce Elementary School in Canton" made McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings into Massachusetts's official state children's book.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

The book is Make Way for Ducklings, a story Yllis used to love when she read picture books, but that was years ago now.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

It looks like the duck in the book, Make Way for Ducklings, I wrote.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011

Curiously, this proposal wasn't initiated by a set of schoolkids cajoled into proposing a state symbol as part of a unit on government, the way the "third grade class at the Dean S. Luce Elementary School in Canton" made McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings into Massachusetts's official state children's book.

The Pitfalls of Picking an Official State Children’s Book 2009

The book is Make Way for Ducklings, a story Yllis used to love when she read picture books, but that was years ago now.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

BOOK Make Way for Ducklings, my first and last post about videogames, public art that's actually good comments:

I Think This One Would Be Named Thwack 2009