The audio version of this story incorrectly states that Make Way for Ducklings is the only Robert McCloskey book honored with a statue. There is a Blueberries for Sal statue in Boothbay Harbor ...

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My mother read me Robert McCloskey’s “Blueberries for Sal” when I was little. The towheaded, tomboyish Sal, prone to pursuing her own fancies, might have been me. Remember the enchantment of ...

If you’re one of the many people who marvel at Robert McCloskey’s illustrations in “Make Way For Ducklings,” consider this: He spent two years drawing mallard ducks and ducklings to ensure ...

Robert McCloskey, the first children’s book author and illustrator to win two Caldecott Medals, one of the highest honors given for children’s literature, has died. He was 89. McCloskey ...

The scene, though an original, is meant to feel pulled from the pages of Blueberries for Sal, author and illustrator Robert McCloskey’s beloved 1948 picture book about two mothers, one human and one ...

Not long after a hospitalization in Mexico City in the late-1950s, Robert McCloskey stopped writing books. He made puppets — “stop gap motion picture stuff,” his daughter explained.

thanks to a donation by the family of writer and illustrator Robert McCloskey to the Nature Conservancy in Maine. The conservancy announced the donation of the 6.2-acre Outer Scott Island in ...