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Madeline and her friends are visiting the gypsy carnival and they are having so much fun. Soon though, a huge storm blows up and they all go home - everyone except Madeline, that is. She stays at the carnival where the gypsies teach her all sorts of tricks. This is the beginning of an adventure.
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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
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Ludwig Bemelmans was a painter, illustrator, and writer for both children and adults. His Madeline book rank among the most honored children’s book series. Madeline was named a Caldecott Honor Book, and the first of its five sequels, Madeline’s Rescue, won the Caldecott Medal and was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. Mr. Bemelmans died in 1962, after completing Madeline’s Christmas. Visit penguin.com/madeline.
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- PublisherAndre Deutsch
- Publication date1962
- ISBN 10 0233956166
- ISBN 13 9780233956169
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages56
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MADELINE IN LONDON
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Book Description Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ludwig Bemelmans (illustrator). 4th Impression. Color illustration on cover and dj. Int. good. Color illustrations. Illustrated eps. 56 pages. Dj worn and raggedy, torn and taped in places. Seller Inventory # 137129B
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth Printing. 56 p. 30 cm. Sound and square in illustrated boards. Some wear to edges and corners. Tiny split in paper at top of front spine edge. Dust wrapper has edge wear, heaviest at the spine ends and including chips, creasing, and closed tears, Jacket has some edge wear, especially at spine head. Not price-clipped. Madeline is off to London with Miss Clavel and the other eleven girls. Will Buckingham Palace ever be the same?. Seller Inventory # 6014
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First UK Edition. Colorful pictorial hardcover has been bumped hard at head of spine, tips have color loss and foot of spine has a 1/8" open tear. Price clipped dj has a diagonal chip missing from upper tip, a 1" x 1 1/2" open tear at head of spine and a 1" x 1 1/2" open tear on upper rear cover. Illustrated end papers, 56 tight pages with crisp text and no tears. When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls. Seller Inventory # 38334
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