Picture book · Fiction
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
About the book
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard search Boston for a safe place to raise their ducklings, with help from a police officer who stops traffic.
Reading notes
A long-loved city story with detailed drawings that reward close looking.
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Recognition
- Caldecott Medal (1942)
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Book details
- Author
- Robert McCloskey
- First published
- 1941
- Suggested ages
- Ages 3–7 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Best read aloud
- Topics
- animals, city life
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780670035380 · Viking Juvenile, September 10, 2001 · Hardcover
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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