Madeline's Christmas

by Ludwig Bemelmans

Overview

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425287989
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/18/2016
Series:	Madeline Series
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD810L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Ludwig Bemelmans (1896-1963) was born in the Austrian Tirol, coming to the United States in 1914. Although best known for his children's books, he also wrote fiction and non-fiction for adults, on subjects he knew best: hotels, traveling, and Hollywood.
 
He was a frequent contributor to magazines, including The New Yorker, Town and Country, and Holiday. Bemelmans was also a painter, whose art was displayed in exhibitions around the world.

Editorial Reviews

"That old house in Paris that is covered with vines' still holds the irrepressible Madeline, who here manages to keep things going when everyone is sick abed Christmas Eve....The pictures are vintage Bemelmans — brisk, energetic, and strikingly composed." Booklist

From the Publisher

"Jingle Bells" and Christmas carols might be filling the air elsewhere, but this season at Madeline's house, sneezes and coughs are much more common. To warm her sick housemates, our young heroine buys the entire stock of a door-to-door rug salesman. Unfortunately, that leaves the poor merchant very chilly, and so Madeline takes him in. In a dazzling show of gratitude, he turns all the rugs into flying carpets to transport all the young girls home for their family's festivities. A vintage classic Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline story.