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The book's popularity led to the construction of a statue in the Public Garden of the mother duck and her eight ducklings.

Make Way For Ducklings is a children's picture book, first published in 1941, written and illustrated by American Robert McCloskey. 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.

The Public Gardens are not unlike the famous Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Created in 1837, as the first public botanical garden in the United States. Today, with its plant material chosen for ornamental excellence as well as its botanical diversity, it forms a green and flowering 24 acre oasis in the heart of Boston.

Through the years, the park has been modified to accommodate the increasing needs of traffic and the availability of new plants.

Flower beds provide glorious color from early April until the frosts of October, and the thousands of plants grown in the city greenhouses make sure the park flower beds are always changing.

Numerous works of public art can be seen as you walk the winding paths that skirt the three acre lagoon.

Remember to take a trip on a swanboat - prices c.US$3-4.00 per person

A famous children's book - Make Way for Ducklings

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