This morning, I read Brooke Herter James's poem "One Afternoon in Maine". The poem clearly alludes to Robert McCloskey's 1952 picture book "One Morning in Maine". One morning in Basel, I read that story to my three-year-old son Miles, and while reading, I wondered what McCloskey did after publishing his famous books from the forties and fifties (including "Make Way for Ducklings", 1941, and "Blueberries for Sal", 1948). When I headed out the door to take Miles to day care, I grabbed the International Herald Tribune from the mailbox, and after dropping him off, I read that McCloskey, who was born in 1914, had died the day before, 30 June 2003. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 15 January 2025)
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