Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Paperback from Viking Juvenile ISBN: 014056439X
Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to
the hospital is as appealing today as it was in 1940. The combination of
spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic
text makes "Madeline" a perennial favorite with children of all ages. Full
color.
No child could resist this adorable, 9-inch-tall, rag-doll-soft Madeline--complete
with appendix-removal scar! This Parisian schoolgirl sports a jaunty felt
hat with a trailing black ribbon, perfect for the mischievous redhead who
is not afraid of mice and pooh-poohs the tiger at the zoo. Her blue sailor
dress is removable for frequent scar viewing! Each doll comes in a big,
splashy gift box (12 inches by 12 inches by 4 inches) with one unabridged
paperback edition of Ludwig Bemelmans's original Madeline ("and
that's all there is--there isn't any more"). (Ages 3 and older)
Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans
Are you mad about Madeline? This delightful edition folds out into
a three-dimensional, five-pointed carousel with five panels that reveal
selected scenes from the book based on Ludwig Bemelmans's illustrations
and presented diorama-style. Our favorite panel depicts Madeline standing
on top of her bed showing her scar to 11 somber little girls, as Miss Clavel
smiles in the background. The complete text of the original 1939 Madeline
folds out like an accordion on the flip side of the panels. We can't resist
this excellently engineered pop-up Parisian carousel, and we can almost
guarantee squeals of delight from young Madeline fans. (Ages 4 and older)
--Karin Snelson - Amazon.com
Paperback
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Paperback from Puffin ISBN: 0140501983
"Bemelmans' drawings have put an authentic Paris within the covers of
this book. The rhymes in which the tale is told make it one that children
will enjoy repeating."--The New York Times. Caldecott Honor Book; ALA Notable
Children's Book. Full-color illustrations.
Poor Miss Clavel! In "an old house in Paris that was covered with vines,"
Miss Clavel oversees the education of 12 little girls, the littlest of
whom is the mischievous Madeline. Despite her size, she fearlessly pooh-poohs
the tiger in the zoo and frightens Miss Clavel with her adventurous antics.
When she awakens the entire house with her plaintive cries in the middle
of the night, Doctor Cohn whisks the appendicitis-stricken Madeline off
to the hospital where, some two hours later, she awakens to find a scar
on her stomach! The scar (not to mention the flowers, toys, and candy given
to Madeline by her father) proves quite interesting to the rest of Miss
Clavel's charges when they make a special trip to visit her. Ludwig Bemelmans's
lilting rhymes are music to children's ears, and the quirky, oddly perfect
drawings of the girls in "two straight lines" lend an enticing Parisian
flavor to this perennial children's favorite. (Ages 3 to 8)
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About Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Hardcover from Viking Juvenile ISBN: 0670888168
For over sixty years, Madeline's adventures have enthralled her ever-growing
audience. This collection brings together all six of the Madeline books
in one volume. Every well-loved word and picture is here, plus an introduction
by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen, an essay by Ludwig
Bemelmans on how he created Madeline, and working sketches of Madeline,
as well as photos of the Bemelmans family. This landmark volume will be
treasured by the entire family.
This elegant volume--perhaps one of the best gift books on the planet--contains
all six adventures of the irrepressible, mischievous Madeline (the smallest
and spunkiest of the twelve little girls in two straight lines). Ludwig
Bemelmans's Madeline was first published in 1939, and its five sequels
have all become classics. In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen's
introduction to Mad About Madeline she writes, "Amid a childhood
full of children's books, amid glorious pictures and imaginative plots,
it is worth wondering why this story is among a handful of books that now-grown
children invariably buy for their own more than half a century after Ludwig
Bemelmans began writing it on the back of a restaurant menu."
Inside this hefty, richly illustrated edition, you'll find Madeline,
Madeline and the Bad Hat, Madeline's Rescue, Madeline
and the Gypsies, Madeline in London, and Madeline's Christmas,
in addition to Quindlen's splendidly insightful introduction, an essay
by Bemelmans on how he invented Madeline, never-before-published working
sketches of Madeline, and photos of the Bemelmans family. The perfect gift
for anyone who has made friends with--or should be introduced to--the precocious
Madeline. (The jaunty verse makes Madeline perfect for reading aloud,
and readers ages 6 and older will enjoy sounding out names such as Lord
Cucuface.)
Madeline
in London by Ludwig Bemelmans
Paperback from Live Oak Media ISBN: 159112817X
"Bemelmans' drawings have put an authentic Paris within the covers
of this book. The rhymes in which the tale is told make it one that children
will enjoy repeating."--The New York Times. Caldecott Honor Book; ALA Notable
Children's Book.
What on earth could make Miss Clavel, Madeline, and her 11 nameless
classmates leave belle Paris for the tea-and-crumpeted, sometimes trumpeted
city of London? A mission to cheer up the lonely, thin, increasingly despondent
Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, who had to move away from his house
next door to Madeline's in Paris. In their efforts to cheer him up, and
for a birthday surprise, Miss Clavel and the girls buy him a retired horse.
All is fine until the horse gallops off at the sound of the trumpet to
take his place at the head of the queen's Life Guards (his occupation before
retiring). As readers whoosh through busy London scenes, we forget the
horse has had nothing to eat all day. Upon his return to Pepito's home,
he eats everything in sight: "The gardener dropped his garden hose. / There
wasn't a daisy or a rose. / 'All my work and all my care / For nought!
Oh, this is hard to bear.'" Meanwhile, as the horse is passed out from
exhaustion and overeating, Pepito's mother says he has to go. And so Madeline
and the others take the horse home with them to Paris, where "They brushed
his teeth and gave him bread, / And covered him up / and put him to bed."
Ludwig Bemelmans charms us again with the uniquely skewed logic and matter-of-fact
madness of childhood that young readers will adore. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin
Snelson
In this beautiful gift book, John Bemelmans Marciano has brought to
fruition a neverbefore-published manuscript written by his grandfather
Ludwig - the tale of Madeline's only trip to America and her holiday adventures.
Includes two more of Bemelmans's wonderful Christmas stories.
Madeline, in all her incarnations over six decades, has remained first
and foremost one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" in an old
house in Paris. Now, with news that will astound her many fans, not to
mention Madeline herself, she and her 11 cohorts find themselves on their
way to Texas, U.S.A. Madeline a wealthy cowgirl? Why not! She handles her
marvelous windfall with her usual aplomb, donning denim and boots to hop
aboard a horse for a tour of her newly inherited gold mines, stampeding
cattle herds, and gushing oil fields. At the end of the day, Miss Clavel
prepares to tuck 12 little girls into bed--but wait... there are only 11!
Where's Madeline?
Traditionalists need not fear that wealth will corrupt their favorite
little orphan. Some surprises are still in store, even for Madeline.
While sorting through his grandfather's files, artist and writer John
Bemelmans Marciano discovered the manuscript and pencil sketches for this
last of the much-loved Madeline series. With great respect, Marciano completed
the project with full-color paintings, and added two more of Bemelmans's
holiday classics--"The Count and the Cobbler" and "Sunshine"--to create
a collection no Bemelmans and Madeline devotee can do without. (Click to
see a sample spread. Copyright 1999 by Barbara Bemelmans, Madeline Bemelmans,
and John Bemelmans Marciano. Used by permission of Scholastic Inc.) (Ages
4 to 8--or all ages, of course) --Emilie Coulter
Madeline's
Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
Hardcover from Live Oak Media ISBN: 1591128102
The lively adventures of the twelve famous little girls and Genevieve
the dog take readers once more to Bemelmans' unique and delightful Paris.
A Caldecott Award Book. Full-color illustrations.
It took Ludwig Bemelmans years to think of Madeline's next adventure
after the 1939 original Madeline, but he did it, and the result
was Madeline's Rescue, winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal. One day
on a walk through Paris (a "twelve little girls in two straight lines"
kind of walk), Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine.
Everyone feared she would be dead, "But for a dog / That kept its head,"
saving her from a "watery grave." What choice do Madeline and the girls
have but to take the heroic pooch home, feed her biscuits, milk, and beef,
and name her Genevieve? Sadly, when Lord Cucuface gets wind of the new
dog, he decrees that no dogs will be allowed in the "old house in Paris
that was covered with vines," and kicks Genevieve out on the street. Madeline
vows vengeance, and the girls scour Paris looking for the pup: "They went
looking high / and low / And every place a dog might go. / In every place
they called her name / But no one answered to the same." As we've come
to expect from Bemelmans, all's well that ends well chez Clavel, and young
readers will be tickled by this heartwarming, quirky dog story with a surprise
finale. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson
The Spanish Ambassador has moved next door, and Madeline knows right
away that his son, Pepito, is bad news. He's mean to animals! Then one
day Pepito goes too far--will a run-in with an angry cat be enough to reform
this bad hat?
One day the Spanish ambassador moves into the Parisian house next door
to Miss Clavel, Madeline, and her 11 classmates. And, His Excellency has
a boy! Pepito, as he is named, is not just any boy: according to Madeline,
he is a "bad hat"--for starters, he's equipped with an irksome slingshot,
he "ghosts," and he boasts. And when Miss Clavel gives him a box of tools
to function as an "outlet for his energy," he makes a guillotine for the
cook's chickens. ("He ate them ROASTED, GRILLED, AND FRITO! Oh what a horror
was PEPITO.") Children will love Ludwig Bemelmans's jaunty rhymes and simple,
evocative drawings, and the ferocity with which the feisty Madeline suspects,
condemns, and rebuffs the boisterous new boy neighbor. In the end, however,
everything comes out right, and we, along with Miss Clavel, can relax.
(Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson
"There is life in everything--why didn't I paint it long ago?" --Ludwig
Bemelmans
Although best known for his Madeline books, Ludwig Bemelmans'
creativity extended far beyond the old house in Paris. He was a novelist
and a non-fiction writer, as well as a regular contributor to The New
Yorker, Vogue, Holiday, and Town and Country.
He also painted murals in a bar at the Carlyle Hotel that still bears his
name. Throughout his life he was a celebrated bon vivant who experienced
a rich variety of people, places and personalities. He even sold a screenplay
to MGM, and planned to collaborate on a book with First Lady Jacqueline
Kennedy. Late in his life Bemelmans became a serious painter, and today
his work can be found in such leading museums as the Metropolitan Museum
in New York, the Musee National d'Art of Paris, and many others. In this
elegant volume his fascinating life story is told through letters, photographs,
sketches, illustrations, paintings and excerpts from both his published
writings and his private journals, all selected by his grandson, John Bemelmans
Marciano, who has also written a running text to guide the reader through
the story. The final part of the book explores Bemelmans' creative process
while working on the Madeline books. This handsomely designed and
lavishly illustrated book showcases Bemelmans' art and writing and illuminates
the relationship between the man and his work.
John Bemelmans Marciano lives in New York City.
"We are writing for Children but not for Idiots." Madeline's creator
was a man of strong opinions, which always makes for a fascinating life.
His legacy was Madeline; however, Ludwig Bemelmans was also a novelist,
a muralist, a nonfiction writer, a screenwriter, an oil painter, and an
all-around bon vivant. In this elegant account, Bemelmans's life story
is told through paintings, sketches, letters, photographs, and excerpts
from published and unpublished writings. Fans of the stories about the
charmingly impetuous little orphan girl (Mad About Madeline) will
be dazzled by the rest of Bemelmans's artistic body of work, as well as
by his irrepressible spirit. Entertaining tidbits will amuse and amaze:
once, on a trip to Germany, Bemelmans placed his cigar stub over his lip
and launched into a Hitler impression near a crowd of Nazi supporters.
Thinking nothing more about it, he and his wife returned to their hotel,
where his wife, on a lark, painted the sleeping Bemelmans's toes pink.
The next day he was arrested for his little prank. When his toenails were
discovered, the police tossed him in the cell for homosexuals!
John Bemelmans Marciano, grandson of Bemelmans, provides a running text
to guide the readers through Bemelmans's own words and pictures, providing
a shape to the life story that will leave admirers of Madeline and her
creator thoroughly satisfied. --Emilie Coulter
Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapes™ audio program and
convert the cassette tapes to compact discs. This season, we're adding
two more titles to our list of Puffin Storytime™ packages.
Madeline's Christmas, Ludwig Bemelmans' classic tale of a little French
girl named Madeline as she celebrates Christmas, is perfect for this holiday
season.These Puffin picture books will be accompanied by a compact disc
that features a professional reading of the unabridged story. Perfect for
road trips or quiet bedtime reading, as well as story time, preschool,
and home school,Puffin Storytime: Madeline's Christmas is sure to please
children and parents alike.
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature
was stirring because of a nasty, contagious illness--even the mouse is
in bed with a miserable cold. Only brave Madeline is up and about ... competently
running the household until she hears a knock at the door--a visitor whom
she suspects might be Santa Claus. Instead it is a magical-rug merchant,
with 12 red carpets that Madeline thinks would be perfect for the 12 girls
and "For our ice-cold in the morning feet." She procures a few francs from
Miss Clavel and pays the merchant. Without his rugs, however, he is very
chilly, and he feels quite silly for having sold them. He returns to the
old house (still covered in vines), where Madeline helps him thaw out,
and he works a little Christmas magic--sending the girls on cross-country
carpet rides to surprise their parents. Of course, Miss Clavel's bell breaks
the spell and they're all back in time to celebrate the New Year. (Ages
4 to 8) --Karin Snelson
Lost
in Paris VHS ()
This 75-minute animated feature is a bright new adventure of Ludwig
Bemelmans's French heroine, a much better direction than the ho-hum 1998
live-action film. The makers of the pleasant 30-minute Madeline animated
videos--including ace narrator Christopher Plummer--create a rich enough
story for this longer video. A man (voiced by Jason Alexander) appears
at the French school for girls announcing that he is Madeline's long-lost
uncle. First overjoyed that she has family, Madeline confronts her emotions
in leaving her friends and Miss Clavel. But something is not right, and
Madeline is soon lost in the big city with her trusty friends in pursuit.
Of course, all will end well, and usually in rhyme, when it comes to Madeline.
A fresh dose of new songs makes this Madeline tale--the first released
by Disney--a real keeper. Ages 2 and up. --Doug Thomas - Amazon.com
