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" Madeline " and her Author

Posted by (white plains, ny, usa) on

For those of us with an undying affection for the little girl from Paris , and the writer who created her , this article in today's NY Times will intrigue the reader . I am a life long lover of Madeline , and the work of Ludwig Bemelmans . This piece will enlighten and charm you - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/style/madeleine-author-illustrator.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=15&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F04%2F27%2Fstyle%2Fmadeleine-author-illustrator.html&eventName=Watching-article-click For more about Bemelmans , this book of his memoirs , is a delight - https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Them-Wonderful-Ludwig-Bemelmans/dp/0070044538/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1525051025&sr=8-1

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Hi Steven, nice articles. I loved reading Madeline with my niece when she was a child. She took French in high school so a few years ago I tried to find a book written in French for her. We looked all over France, finally a person at one bookstore told us that Madeline really isn’t French, she’s an “American invention”. We eventually found a book on Amazon. This year I saw a French version at the bookstore at the Louvre.

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Thanks for this post--I loved Madeline as a child and in later years discovered the joy of his other writing--memoirs and he was quite a gourmand as well.

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Delightful article. Bemelmans was really a genius.

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