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Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massachusetts.
Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates. As of 2003, the book had sold over two million copies.[ The book's popularity led to the construction of a statue by Nancy Schön in the Public Garden of the mother duck and her eight ducklings, which is a popular destination for children and adults alike. In 1991, Barbara Bush gave a duplicate of this sculpture to Raisa Gorbachev as part of the START Treaty, and the work is displayed in Moscow's Novodevichy Park.
The book is the official children's book of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Praise for the book is still high over 60 years since its first publication, mainly for the enhancing illustrations and effective pacing.[8] It was criticised for having a loose plot, however, as well as poor characterization.[2] The book is extremely popular worldwide.
The story begins as Mr. and Mrs. Mallard fly over various potential locations to start a family. Each time Mr. Mallard selects a location, Mrs. Mallard finds something wrong with it. Tired from their search, the mallards land at the Public Garden Lagoon to spend the night. In the morning, a swan boat passes by the mallards. The mallards mistake the swan boat for a real bird and have a second breakfast of peanuts thrown from the people on the boat. Mrs. Mallard suggests that they build their nest in the Public Garden. However, just as she says this, she is nearly run down by a passing bicyclist. The mallards continue their search, flying over Boston landmarks such as Beacon Hill, the Massachusetts State House, and Louisburg Square. The mallards finally decide on an island in the Charles River. From this island, the mallards visit a policeman named Michael on the shore, who feeds them peanuts every day.
Shortly thereafter, the mallards molt, and Mrs. Mallard hatches eight ducklings named Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack. After the ducklings are born, Mr. Mallard decides to take a trip up the river to see what the rest of it is like. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard agree to meet at the Public Garden in one week. In the meantime, Mrs. Mallard teaches the eight ducklings all they need to know about being ducks.
One week later, Mrs. Mallard leads the ducklings ashore and straight to the highway in hopes of crossing to reach the Garden, but she has trouble crossing as the cars will not yield to her. Michael, the policeman who fed peanuts to the Mallards, stops traffic for the family to cross. Michael calls police headquarters and instructs them to send a police car to stop traffic along the route for the ducks. The ducks cross the highway, Embankment Road, then proceed down Mount Vernon Street to Charles Street where they head south to the Garden. When the family must cross Beacon Street to enter the Garden, there are four policeman standing in the intersection stopping traffic to make way for the ducklings. Mr. Mallard is waiting in the Public Garden for the rest of the family. Finally, the family decides to stay in the Garden and lives happily ever after.[1]
Boston's beloved 'Make Way For Ducklings' family decked out in Easter best
Happy Easter from Make Way For Ducklings' Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack!
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I lived in Boston for more than 13 years. Here are some of the essential Boston attractions and institutions through my eyes. The video includes all these sites and more...
The Freedom Trail (all 16 sites)
Tea Party Museum, Concord Minute Man National Historical Park, Lexington Captain Parker Statue.
Charles River, Hatch Shell, The Esplanade.
Commonwealth Ave, Newbury Street, Boylston Street.
Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Berklee College of Music, Latin School.
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Boston Common, Public Garden, Christian Science Plaza.
Boston Symphony Hall, Fenway Park, Copley Square, TD Garden.
Cheers Beacon Hill, 500 Boylston Street(Boston Legal).
Make Way for Ducklings Statues.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children Hospital, General Hospital.
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RUSSIA: BRONZE DUCK SCULPTURES RETURNED (V)
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The ducks are back in Moscow.
Three of them disappeared from a park last February -- but officials are certain they did not fly south for the winter.
The ducks are bronze statues that were sawn off at the legs and stolen for scrap metal.
Police say there's a lot of that kind of theft going on in Russia these days.
The figures are replicas of statues in the Boston Public Garden and portray the characters from Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, a beloved American children's book.
The statues were presented by America's then-first lady Barbara Bush in 1991, after her Russian counterpart Raisa Gorbachev admired the originals in Boston.
00 02 The former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev has attended many unveiling ceremonies in his time.
But this was one he most certainly did not want to duck out of.
00 12 This family of bronze ducklings and their mother were vandalised but they've now been restored to their former glory.
00 19 Gorbachev has a personal interest in the little statues as they were a gift to his wife Raisa from the then-first lady of the U-S Barbara Bush.
00 29 Raisa Gorbachev admired the originals in the Boston Public Garden during a visit in (1990) nineteen ninety.
Mrs. Bush remembered this and the following year, sent the ducks to Moscow.
00 39 The American connection doesn't end there.
It was thanks to the efforts of a Boston-based bank, which footed over half the restoration costs that the ducks are back along the shores of a pond in the Novodevichy Park.
00 52 The vandals struck in February, stealing the mother duck and two of the ducklings by sawing them off at the legs.
The restored ducks, as were the 0100 original counterparts, are made of bronze and cost fifty thousand dollars.
01 05 Promises have been now made to improve security around the statues to discourage thieves from striking again.
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BOSTON PUBLIC GARDENS ON A LATE SUMMER DAY - DUCKS, SWAN BOATS - BOSTON COMMON
I arrived by train into Boston's South Station. It was early morning and the place was an absolute mob scene.
Getting off the Amtrak Acela, I made my way through the barrage of people and past the 45 deep line of people waiting for coffee at Dunkin' Donuts.
It looked awful. Throngs of zombie-like people, already sweating and looking strung out in uncomfortable business attire, making their way to jobs they hate.
Just the sight of it all was enough for me to seek the relative calm of Boston's famous Public Garden. I had been there before and the place had given me a peaceful feeling several times in the past.
Although the Public Garden is about four acres, the sounds of the city are still pretty evident. Horn honking and nearby construction unabashedly interrupts the mood. It's not really comparable to New York City's Central Park because it's so much smaller.
But the Public Garden makes up for its size with sheer beauty, exotic plants, and flawless landscaping. Although I'm not a fan of gardens or rare flora, it was interesting to read about flowers and trees that I never knew existed.
It was sunny during my walk, but the weather channel said it was supposed to rain later in the day. This might explain why the swan boats were docked. Luckily, I saw two real live swans intermingling with ducks, who seemed to be everywhere in the Public Garden.
The bridge going over the Public Garden's lake was a remarkable. Instead of a plain old overpass, it was designed to look like a miniature suspension bridge, similar to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Walking around, there were a mix of tourists, business people on their way to work, runners, and mothers going for a stroll with their kids. Some people simply sat on the park benches and read a book.
If you go, take the Green Line to Arlington Station. The Public Garden is right next door.
Some of the rare trees and flowers on display were:
Beech trees, European beech, Purple beech, Weeping European beech, River birch, Castor Aurelia, Western catalpa, Kwanzan cherry, Kentucky coffee tree, Tea crab, Bald CyprusElm trees, American elm, Belgian elm, Camperdown elm, English elm, Rock elm, Scotch elm, Horsechestnut, Japanese larch, Linden trees, Common linden, Littleleaf linden, Star magnolia, Maidenhair tree, Maple trees, Norway maple, Red maple, Silver maple, Oak trees, Burr oak, English oak, Pin oak, Pagoda trees, Pagoda tree, Weeping pagodaRedwood trees, Dawn redwood, Giant redwood, Silk tree, Silverbell, Japanese stewartia, Japanese tree lilac, Tuliptree, Tupelo, Yellowwood, Weeping willow.
Grant and Aunt J do Boston in 10 Minutes
Grant and Aunt J run through their day and a half of Boston supported by Grant's pictures of the trip... most of them. Amazingly, we did this with no notes. We were proud. :)
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Here's all the stuff we hit in exactly 1.5 days:
Jamaica Plains
Flute Recital
Whale Watch
Boston Harbor tour (ICA, Trade Center, Castle Island, Logan Airport, oldest lighthouse)
Brookline - Coolidge Corner
Green Line C Train - Beacon Street / Brookline
Newbury Street / Boston
Boylston Street / Boston
Prudential Center
Huntington Avenue
Duck Tours
Zakim bridge
Charles River
Skywalk Observatory
Mac store
Marathon finish line
Copley Square
Boston Public Library
Trinity Chapel
Hancock Tower
Commonwealth Ave (Comm Ave)
Public Garden
George Washington statue
Swan boats
Make Way for Ducklings
Cheers bar
Beacon Hill
State House (gold dome)
Sculpture 1st Volunteer African American regiment - civil war
Boston Common
Park Street Church
Granary Burial Ground (Ben Franklin, Paul Revere)
King's Chapel
King's Chapel Burial Ground (name?) (Mayflower, William Dawes, Gov Winthrop born late 1500's)
School street
Old City Hall
Old South Meeting House
Downtown Crossing
Financial district
Old State House
Fanuiel Hall
Great Hall (lecture place)
Quincy Market (scallops)
Rose Kennedy Greenway
North End
Paul Revere Statue
Old North Church
Paul Revere's House
Bronzed garbage
Union Oyster House
Holocaust Memorial
Government Center
Symphony Hall
World Headquarters - Christian Science Church
Berklee College of Music
Kenmore Square (dinner)
George Washington Statue Boston Public Garden
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RUSSIA: BRONZE DUCK SCULPTURES RETURNED
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Nine bronze duck sculptures have been reunited in a Moscow park after three of them were stolen in February.
The ducks that stand by a pond near the Novodevichy Monastery were restored with the help of a Boston-based bank.
The composition had been a gift in 1991 from the then first lady, Barbara Bush.
She had them made after her Russian counterpart Raisa Gorbachev admired the originals in the Boston Public Garden during a visit in 1990.
Mrs. Bush sent the ducks to Moscow to commemorate the US-Soviet arms treaty known as Start One.
Mikhail Gorbachev participated in the unveiling ceremony.
September 20th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Raisa Gorbachev, who died after battling with a rare form of leukemia.
She is buried in Novodevichy cemetery.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
I think that she is participating with us. She is of the same mind as we are. She would be sad that the ducks disappeared, and glad that they were restored.
SUPER CAPTION: Mikhail Gorbachev
The restored ducks, and their original counterparts, are made of bronze at the cost of 50-thousand U-S dollars.
Promises have been made to beef up security to discourage thieves after the stolen ducks were literally sawed off at the legs.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I've heard that they're going to have a little more security, and I'm hoping that they're going to put some lights around. We found that the lights in Boston helped a great deal. I hope for more security, but however, one doesn't know. But I promise to keep these ducks here and in Boston, certainly as long as I live, and hopefully longer.
SUPER CAPTION: Nancy Schon, Sculptor
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Mallard and Ducklings on Johnson Creek
Mother Mallard duck leads her chicks into the creek.