All the classic Madeline stories--six in all--are brought together in a handsome new jacket. Every well-loved word and picture is here, plus an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen. Includes an essay by Bemelmans on how he created Madeline, along with sketches of Madeline and photos of the Bemelmans family. Full-color illustrations.
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All the classic Madeline stories--six in all--are brought together in a handsome new jacket. Every well-loved word and picture is here, plus an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen. Includes an essay by Bemelmans on how he created Madeline, along with sketches of Madeline and photos of the Bemelmans family. Full-color illustrations.
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"In an old house in Paris
that was covered with vines
lived twelve little girls in two straight lines."
In visiting my granddaughter, age 4, (2009) I have been revisiting the Madeline stories by Ludwig Bemelmans. I don't get to see my granddaughter often, but we have been reading Madeline at bedtime. Among other things, she knows the famous, fearless line: "To the tiger in the zoo, Madeline just said 'Pooh-pooh."
Bemelmans (1898 -- 1962) was an American author and artist remembered primarily for his Madeline books. There were six books in the series (another appeared after Bemelmans's death in an edition published by his son) written between 1939 and 1961:
Madeline
Madeline and the Bad Hat
Madeline's Rescue
Madeline and the Gypsies
Madeline in London
Madeline's Christmas
As a child, I was familiar with only the original book which is still the most famous of the series. My daughter knew several of them, as I remember, and now my granddaughter has the entire collection of six little books in this complete edition, "Mad about Madeline." The book also includes, for parents, a useful introduction by Anna Quindlen, an afterward of brief recollections by Bemelmans, and an index after each story of the scenes in Paris that Bemelmans used for his illustrations.
The stories are told in rhymed couplets and feature simple illustrations, some of which are in black, white, and yellow, others in full color. The chief character is the mischievous and adventurous Madeline, the smallest girl in a Paris boarding school of 12 girls, together with the teacher, a nun named Miss Clavel, whose evenings are often disrupted by the antics of Madeline and her companions. Other characters include Pepito, the son of the Spanish Ambassador who lives next door (in three stories) and a dog named Genevive, who saves Madeline from drowning in the story called "Madeline's Rescue". One story, "Madeline in London" takes place in London while another "Madeline and the Gypsies" takes place in part in a Gypsy camp. The final story "Madeline's Christmas" is more fanciful than its companions and includes rides on magic carpets. In each of the stories, the spunky Madeline faces a disaster which is overcome, to the relief of Miss Clavel and the other girls.
It is delightful to revisit these stories, or in some cases to read them anew, with a grandchild. I recently became a grandparent for the second time and have been meeting my new granddaughter for the first time while reading Madeline and having other adventures with her big sister. In a few years, I hope to be reading Madeline to the newborn as well.
Robin Friedman
Martha R
Jan 16, 2014
It's all here
I love all the Madeline stories, and this is the complete set all in one! It introduces children to boarding school, a little French, and includes drawings by Bemelmens of real places in France and other countries. All books begin with, "In an old house in Paris all covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. The smallest one was Madeline." And then the adventures begin. All the stories are delights!
LindyLoo
May 6, 2007
Very sweet.
Madeline, My grandaughter went crazy over it. She is 3 and "read" it to me over and over on our trip to Tn. She has another copy of a single story. I bought her all the stories in one and she couldn't get enough of it. I would read and then she would read. Grampa would read and then she would read to Grampa. Then great Grampa came and she read to him. Just fun stories that even keep us adults entertained and keep the little ones asking for more and more. Loved it. Lin
