The Cincinnati Art Museum has made way for Robert McCloskey’s ducklings – and his blueberries, bears and doughnut machine. The museum’s special exhibition, “Make Way for Ducklings: The Art ...

When I was about twelve, I made my childhood best friend furious. It was her birthday, but instead of participating in her party, I was curled up with a book on her couch. Reading is a worthy ...

Robert McCloskey, the first children's book author and illustrator to win two Caldecott Medals, ... “Lentil” (1940) and “Homer Price” (1943) feature young, ...

The Robert McCloskey Museum will celebrate its namesake, a native Hamiltonian, a day before what would have been his 110th birthday. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, the organization invites the ...

make way for ducklings: the art of robert mccloskey At Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., through June 18. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org KAHBAHBLOOOM: THE ART AND STORYTELLING OF ED EMBERLEY ...

By Robert McCloskey, 1941, graphite. (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Robert McCloskey landed in Boston during the Great Depression, having won a scholarship in 1932 to study at Vesper ...

Many readers may know McCloskey’s name thanks to his 1941 book Make Way for Ducklings, which earned him a Caldecott award.Set in Boston, the story follows Mr. and Mrs. Mallard as they search for ...

He was born in 1914 in Hamilton, Ohio, and at 26, he published the book that launched him to fame, "Lentil" (1940), about a boy in a fictional Midwestern town that resembled his own. He studied in ...

HAMILTON — A couple of years ago, Jane McCloskey sat down to write a story about a time when she was a child that she sat as a model for her father, Hamilton native and award-winning children ...

When I was about twelve, I made my childhood best friend furious. It was her birthday, but instead of participating in her party, I was curled up with a book on her couch. Reading is a worthy ...