![]() ![]() Children identify with the ducklings because they behave as children do. ![]() ![]() Illustrated with sepia drawings rather than the traditional black-and-white pictures found in most children’s books of the day, the book, which received the 1942 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, has continued to garner praise years after its first publishing. The drawings of Boston represent a duck’s eye view of the city.Each of the individual ducklings is “bored, inquisitive, sleepy, or they are scratching, talking over their backs one to another, running to catch up with the lineâ€. We see sepia drawings quite a bit now, but it was unusual at the time: ![]() He washed the ducklings off in the bathtub, put them in a pan and got to work. Itching to begin the illustrations, McCloskey went down to the Washington Square Market, bought a crate of ducks and brought them back to his Greenwich Village studio apartment. Many people know Make Way for Ducklings, but they might not know the lengths to which Robert McCloskey went to get the beloved Mallard family to look just right. McCloskey’s devotion to mimesis reminds me of the lengths the Hayao Miyazaki studio goes to when animating naturalistic movements. ![]()
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