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Madeleine
by
Ludwig Bemelmans
- 9" x 6 5/8"
- 23 pages
- Hardback
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All Hebrew
- Printed in Israel
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One afternoon in the late
1930s, writer and artist
Ludwig Bemelmans,
Austrian-born but now living
in New York City, sat
sketching out the plot of a
children's book. His idea
involved a jaunty
convent-school heroine,
Madeline by name, whose
adventures in Paris (with
side trips to London and the
French countryside)
possessed a timeless and
insouciant charm. |
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 Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the beloved Madeline stories, didn’t have
an easy start in life. Born in 1898 to a well-off family in Tyrol, Austria,
he dropped out of school and was apprenticed to his uncle, who owned several
resort hotels. At age 16, he fought with and shot a head-waiter. His family
said he could either go to reform school or emigrate to America. He came to
America.
Life didn’t get much easier in the United States, where he arrived with two
pistols expecting he’d have to fight Indians. He soon lost another job as a
waiter—this time for wearing mismatched shoes and went on to join the U.S.
Army and fight in World War I.
After the service, he began to settle down. He became part owner of the
Hapsburg House and began writing and illustrating children’s books. Madeline
was rejected by his original publishers and he had to submit it to several
houses before finding an editor that would take it on. The others said the
book was too sophisticated for a children’s tale. |
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