Tim Kaine
United States Senator from Virginia since 2013
Robert McCloskey
children's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)
John Robert McCloskeywas an American writer and illustrator of children’s books. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book.
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About the Robert McCloskey
John Robert McCloskeywas an American writer and illustrator of children’s books. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book. Four of the eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep-water Man (the last three of those four were all set on the coast). His best-known work is Make Way For Ducklings, set in Boston. In longer works, he both wrote and illustrated Homer Price and he illustrated Keith Robertson’s Henry Reed series.
5 Quotes by Robert McCloskey
- 1.
I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.
Robert McCloskeychildren's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)
- 2.
Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I’m solvent, you know. I’m making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that’s it.
Robert McCloskeychildren's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)
- 3.
I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them – I would have gone to the country somewhere.
Robert McCloskeychildren's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)
- 4.
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.
Robert McCloskeychildren's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)
- 5.
That was the – It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
Robert McCloskeychildren's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)