Make Way For Ducklings.
MCCLOSKEY, Robert.
Make Way For Ducklings.
“THERE’S A FAMILY OF DUCKS WALKIN’ DOWN THE STREET!”: Make Way For Ducklings; signed by Robert McCloskey
New York: The Viking Press, 1969.
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Item Number: 151272
Later printing of McCloskey’s Caldecott Award-winning book which has been in continuous print since its first appearance in 1941. Slim folio, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with sepia drawings by the author. Boldly signed by Robert McCloskey on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the top corner of the rear panel of the dust jacket.
“McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings gives an engaging picture of Boston and tells a story of universal delight for children everywhere” (Meigs, 586). “While he was working on the illustrations… McCloskey realized he needed live models. He bought four mallard chicks at a market and brought them home to his New York City apartment. When he went to Boston to sketch backgrounds, he brought back six more ducks. ‘All this sounds like a three-ring circus,’ he says, ‘but it shows that no effort is too great to find out as much as possible about the things you are drawing, It’s a good feeling to be able to put down a line and know that it is right” (Silvey, 443).
