Procure Make Way For Ducklings ...and More Robert McCloskey Stories Created By Robert McCloskey Displayed In Manuscript

McCloskey in one! Absolutely beautiful, wonderful collection for every home, I loved it as much as, probably even more than, my little ones, What a gifted wordsmith and artist, Notes:
the only anthology we'd ever consider buying
love every story and the bio info Love This collection amasses allstories written by Robert McCloskey in one book.
Its a great book that I own, It containsstories that were nominated or won the Caldecott medal, Robert is a wonderful artist and this is a great collection of Americana, I love his stories set in the islands of Maine or the coast of Maine, It makes me want to live in Maine,

Robert had a true talent for storytelling and a great eye for detail, He could tell a memorable story, most of which are long for a picture book, “It is just sort of an accident that I write books, I really think up stories in pictures and just fill in between the pictures with a sentence or a paragraph or a few pages of words.
”Robert McCloskey

As young children, its easy to read a book in a sort of vacuum we hear the words, we see

the pictures, and we enjoy the story for what it is.
Its not an entirely unreasonable way to read literature, New Criticism is, to some degree, devoted to reading and interpreting the text and only the text.
A books introduction, whether one considers it as being a part of or distinct from the text, has the potential to frame a persons reading of a textVladimir Nabokov and Yann Martel exploit this in Lolita and Life of Pi, respectivelyand when I read this collections introduction and reread a simple story like Make Way for Ducklings while keeping in mind that it was published in the midst of the turbulent World War II, the deadliest war in human history, it becomes more than just innocent, but all the more halcyon and considerably more beautiful.
I picked this up for my youngest because of the spaciousness and sense of the grand and the homely touching together that McCloskey's stories tend to have.
It's a pity that the collection does not reproduce the fullpage illustrations of the original stories, It definitely takes away from the effect when the pictures are reduced and the text no longer superimposed on them, especially for "Time of Wonder".
If I had to do it over again, I'd buy the stories one by one instead of this collection.
Wow! lots of McCloskey in one big book, with background,
I had never read Deep Water Manever! My girls and I love these storybook animations, I wish I could find more of these, Seeing my three year old's reaction to when the characters she has come to know come to life off the page is priceless.
I've read this book so many times already this year, but these eight stories are classics, Right now, we're reading Make Way for Ducklings over and over again, and each time we see mallards, we call them Mr.
and Mrs. Mallard. The illustrations are beautiful and the stories are as sweet and relevant as they were when McCloskey first published this book.


/ Robert McCloskey's Caldecott Awardwinning tales are brought to life in this timeless collection,
Make Way for Ducklings
Blueberries for Sal
Time of Wonder
Burt Dow: Deep Water Man
Lentil
Spanish Version of Make Way for Ducklings
Read Along

Recommended for agesWhat a life he had.
His books are so charming, They are timeless. SM This book is a treasure, Wonderful collection nod his books as well as information about the author/illustrator and his life and art.
Loved it! John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of childrens books, He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association recognizing the years best illustrated picture book.
Four of those eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep water Man the last three all on the coast.
He was also the writer for Make Way For Ducklings, as well as the illustrator for The Man Who Lost His Head.
McCloskey was born in Hamilton, Ohio, duringand reached Boston inwith a scholarship to study at Vesper George Art School.
After Vesper George he moved to New York City for study at the National Academy of Desig John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association recognizing the year's best illustrated picture book.
Four of those eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep water Man the last three all on the coast.
He was also the writer for Make Way For Ducklings, as well as the illustrator for The Man Who Lost His Head.
McCloskey was born in Hamilton, Ohio, duringand reached Boston inwith a scholarship to study at Vesper George Art School.
After Vesper George he moved to New York City for study at the National Academy of Design.
In, he married Peggy Durand, daughter of the children's writer Ruth Sawyer, They had two daughters, Sally and Jane, and settled in New York State, spending summers on Scott Island, a small island off Little Deer Isle in East Penobscot Bay.
McCloskey's wife and eldest daughter Sally are reputed to be the models for little Sal and her mother in Blueberries for Sal, a picture book set on a "Blueberry Hill" in the vicinity.
Three others of his picture books are set on the coast and concern the sea, Peggy died in. Twelve years later on June,, McCloskey died at his home in Deer Isle, Maine, sitelink.