By any measure one of the most beloved sculptures in town in Nancy Schon's Make Way for Ducklings which sits in the Boston Garden and depicts Mrs Mallard and her eight ducklings. The incredibly popular children's book of 1942 tells the adventure of the Mallard offspring after a long and frightening journey dodging bicycles all the way from the Charles River to the Boston Garden so that they could have a new home with the swan boats and eat peanuts with Mr Mallard. Copies of the sculpture have found their way to Moscow and even the White House. Nancy Schon, originally trained as a modern sculptor, saw this work and its immense popularity as a transitional moment in her career and turned to figurative animal sculpture since then; many of her subsequent works can be found throughout the city's parks.
