# Make Way for Ducklings

**Author:** Robert McCloskey
**Lexile:** 730L
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 4–8
**First published:** 1941
**Page count:** 68
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780140564341`
**ISBN-10:** `0140564349`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/make-way-for-ducklings
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard search for a home for their ducklings in 1940s Boston. McCloskey's 1942 Caldecott Medal winner is one of the most-cited classroom picture books for teaching setting and sequence and was named the Massachusetts state children's book in 2003.

## Themes

- family
- urban nature
- community helpers
- patience
- Boston setting

## Content notes

- mild peril (traffic)

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 3+

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1942 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1942 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1942 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1942 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: The First Academy — Kindergarten Read-Aloud & Early Readers Suggested Summer Reading](https://thefirstacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/K-Prep-and-K-Read-Aloud-Reading.pdf)
- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B K picture book exemplar (Caldecott Medal 1942)](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CES Academy — Grade-by-Grade Summer Reading List](https://www.ces-schools.net/summer-reading-a-grade-by-grade-recommended-reading-list-for-kids/)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B grade 1 picture book exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **required** · 1st grade · Massachusetts — [source: MA Curriculum Frameworks — state children's book (designated 2003)](https://www.doe.mass.edu/)

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