Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey · 1941

A pair of mallards choose an island in the Boston Public Garden, and the city's traffic obligingly stops for them.

Mr and Mrs Mallard look for somewhere safe to raise a family and settle on an island in the Boston Public Garden. When the ducklings are old enough, Mrs Mallard marches them across the city and a policeman stops the traffic. McCloskey’s charcoal drawings won the Caldecott Medal in 1942 and the birds have since been cast in bronze where the book put them.

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Amy Chua

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Mrs Mallard is my mothering role model.

Interview · May 2011

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