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| AUTHOR: | Ludwig Bemelmans |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Viking Press |
| ISBN: | 0670445800 |
| TYPE: | Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks, Children: Grades 2-3, Classics, Fiction, Paris, Picture books, Stories in rhyme |
| MEDIA: | Library Binding |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Madeline
A spunky role model! I missed the Madeline books completely when I was a child, so my daughter and I discovered them together. It's an education seeing Madeline through her eyes. In Madeline, my daughter, who is somewhat shy and leery of new experiences, has a heroine who is smart, spunky, and completely in control of every situation.
I like Madeline the character a lot more than I like the books. I've found that very few writers can write wonderful verse, and I don't include Bemelmans in that august company. Some of his rhymes flow nicely together, such as the opening lines of the first book:
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. Some of his rhymes are jarring:
and soon after Dr. Cohn came, he rushed out to the phone, and he dialed : DANton-ten-six --
'Nurse,' he said, 'it's an appendix!' Everybody had to cry --
not a single eye was dry. . . . Madeline woke up two hours
later, in a room with flowers.
Still, the story isn't bad. A brave little girl is rushed to the hospital, has her appendix out, then shows off her scar. She makes it so exciting that all the other girls want their appendix out, too. Even my daughter wanted to have an appendix scar, until I explained just what that would entail.
Essential!
As a child, some of my favorite books were the Madeline stories. This is the first in the series, and it sets a wonderful tone. The illustrations are wonderful, and it's fun to see illustrations of actual Parisian landmarks such as the Opera, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Tulleries. The story is fun, fast and catchy, and I used to wish that I was one of the little girls standing amongst the two straight lines lead by Miss Clavel.
This book is not just for little girls. Boys can enjoy the story as well.
don't read
I am taking a class at West Viginia State Univesity and it used to be known as West Virginia State College. The class is children's literature and Mr. Roger Samples teaches it and he keeps it interesting the way he teaches the class. The book Madeline I did not like because it reminded me of a military school the way they had to eat and walk in squads every where they went. It also reminded me of an old boarding school where you had those mean teachers hitting the kids with a ruler when they answered a question wrong. I did like the rhyming words and would read this to my class. It tells you that her friends want to be cut up just so they can have a scar just like her. It does not tell they pain she had after the surgery or the painful recovery of rehab. The book makes you believe that having surgery is fun.