Robert McCloskey
Hardcover | Pages: 64 pages Rating: 4.22 | 82069 Users | 1682 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Make Way for Ducklings |
| ISBN: | 0670035386 (ISBN13: 9780670035380) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Boston, Massachusetts(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Caldecott Medal (1942), Indies Choice Book Award for Picture Book Hall of Fame (2009) |
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The Big Chill Except With The Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up is what I originally was going to post for this review but then I was like you know who likes ridiculous things with extremely long titles is McSweeney's, I should see if they want this, and they did. Here are the Duckling things I didn't cover:
a) my kid thinks all cops are named Michael now
b) here is a funny tweet
c) this book is very famous amongst Bostonians and all babies born in Boston automatically get like five copies of it from various cousins. This is for good reasons:
c.1) there are not many famous things from Boston, it's pretty much this and Aerosmith, western Mass tries to take credit for the Pixies too but it doesn't always work
c.2) Make Way For Ducklings is oddly specific in its Boston geography. It's practically a tour guide.
Anyway the result is that there's a statue of the ducklings on Boston Common and here's my kid with them, following my general rule of Always Post A Picture Of Your Cute-Ass Kid, People Seem To Like That.
My friend Joanne below reminds me that there's even an annual Duckling Parade in Boston - May 12 for 2019 - at which, I assume, toddlers run into traffic.
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| Title | : | Make Way for Ducklings |
| Author | : | Robert McCloskey |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 64 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2001 by Viking Press (first published 1941) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Picture Books. Classics. Fiction. Animals. Family. Kids |
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Ratings: 4.22 From 82069 Users | 1682 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Make Way for Ducklings
McCloskey has been a favorite children's book author of mine since I was a child. I enjoyed reading it to my children, and will most definitely read all of his books to grandchildren someday.The Big Chill Except With The Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up is what I originally was going to post for this review but then I was like you know who likes ridiculous things with extremely long titles is McSweeney's, I should see if they want this, and they did. Here are the Duckling things I didn't cover:a) my kid thinks all cops are named Michael nowb) here is a funny tweet c) this book is very famous amongst Bostonians and all babies born in Boston automatically get
I'm a big fan of McCloskey ever since I read the Homer books when I was a kid. So I was pleasantly surprised to find this book in our school supplies for our charter school this year. Nice to see some diversity in the language arts lesson plans. Unfortunately, (or rather fortunately), my 5 yr old tested out of Kindergarten and into first grade, so we'll be sending the materials back and waiting for our first grade materials. In the meantime, I'm going through and reading all the books to the
Warning: CONTAINS SPOILERS! My reading of Make Way for Ducklings is not seeped in nostalgia like some readers' experiences might be at a later age. Because of this, I might have the advantage (or disadvantage?) of recognizing some questionable plot holes that the more sentimental reader might overlook. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard open our story by flying over beautiful New England scenery with plenty of lakes, woods, and fields looking for a place to raise their family. Because there might be natural
A FAMILY BOOK :).
When I bought an animal alphabet book by Richard Scarry this week, Bep told me that as late as the 1980s it was forbidden for animals in Dutch children's picture books to wear clothes. I had no idea. I was reading Donald Duck at the time and thought he was subversive for not wearing pants, but apparently he was subversive for wearing a shirt! I still don't understand this no clothes rule. What's so wrong about anthropomorphing (?) animals? One of the finest moments of Dutch literature is a
One of the best. Classics are classics for a reason.
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