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Madelineby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0140348808 (0-14-034880-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline'Book summary: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 [via]
Madeline & the Bad Hatby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0140502068 (0-14-050206-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Madeline & the Gypsiesby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0140502610 (0-14-050261-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline & the Gypsies'Book summary:Tending the Earth: A Gardener's Manifesto is a spirited how-to manual for restoring healthy function to damaged landscapes--even when the landscape in question is not technically ours to restore. For author Lorraine Johnson, one of the most hopeful flowerings of our new-found, collective gardening obsession is that we seem to be extending the traditional territory of the garden to include places that once would have been considered inappropriate. "Our landscapes are full to overflowing with unlikely opportunities for garden expansion," Johnson writes. "Highway roadsides, for example. Who says they need to be mile after mile of mowed and herbicide-sprayed grass?" Readers who don't quite know how to go about "guerilla gardening" will find plenty of inspiration from Johnson's friends and neighbours, who dumpster dive at nurseries, plant tiny prairies in city-owned concrete planters in Toronto, and "daylight" lost rivers and streams in Vancouver. One enterprising fellow takes on the stormwater run-off problem by planting a wet-meadow garden in the ditch outside his house--then engages in an impassioned battle with the local authorities who try to uproot it. Johnson is such a witty and galvanizing writer, many readers will find it impossible to resist launching subversive actions of their own. --Carolyn Leitch [via]
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Madeline 72-Copy Mixed Floor Displayby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0140501983 (0-14-050198-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Madeline's Christmasby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0140506667 (0-14-050666-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline's Christmas'Book summary:'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring because of a nasty, contagious illness--even the mouse is in bed with a miserable cold. Only brave Madeline is up and about ... competently running the household until she hears a knock at the door--a visitor whom she suspects might be Santa Claus. Instead it is a magical-rug merchant, with 12 red carpets that Madeline thinks would be perfect for the 12 girls and "For our ice-cold in the morning feet." She procures a few francs from Miss Clavel and pays the merchant. Without his rugs, however, he is very chilly, and he feels quite silly for having sold them. He returns to the old house (still covered in vines), where Madeline helps him thaw out, and he works a little Christmas magic--sending the girls on cross-country carpet rides to surprise their parents. Of course, Miss Clavel's bell breaks the spell and they're all back in time to celebrate the New Year. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Madeline's Rescueby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0140502076 (0-14-050207-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline's Rescue'Book summary:It took Ludwig Bemelmans years to think of Madeline's next adventure after the 1939 original Madeline, but he did it, and the result was Madeline's Rescue, winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal. One day on a walk through Paris (a "twelve little girls in two straight lines" kind of walk), Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, "But for a dog / That kept its head," saving her from a "watery grave." What choice do Madeline and the girls have but to take the heroic pooch home, feed her biscuits, milk, and beef, and name her Genevieve? Sadly, when Lord Cucuface gets wind of the new dog, he decrees that no dogs will be allowed in the "old house in Paris that was covered with vines," and kicks Genevieve out on the street. Madeline vows vengeance, and the girls scour Paris looking for the pup: "They went looking high / and low / And every place a dog might go. / In every place they called her name / But no one answered to the same." As we've come to expect from Bemelmans, all's well that ends well chez Clavel, and young readers will be tickled by this heartwarming, quirky dog story with a surprise finale. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Parsleyby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0060204559 (0-06-020455-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from the Big Night Out to the Officeby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0007181329 (0-00-718132-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from the Big Night Out to the Office'Book summary:[via]In the 1990s, British comedy underwent a renaissance—shows like The Royle Family and The Office were hugely popular with critics and audiences alike. Just as sports, art, and literature seemed to move towards light entertainment, the comedy on the nation's televisions gave us a clear picture of what was happening to our nation. From Ricky Gervais' self-destructive love affair with dairy products to Steve Coogan's suicidal overtaking technique; from the secrets of Vic Reeves' woodshed to Spike Milligan's final resting place, Ben Thompson reveals the twisted beauty of British comedys psyche.More editions of Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from the Big Night Out to the Office:
Tell Them It Was Wonderfulby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0070044538 (0-07-004453-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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When You Lunch with the Emperor : The Adventures of Ludwig Bemelmansby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0091895359 (0-09-189535-9)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When You Lunch with the Emperor : The Adventures of Ludwig Bemelmans'Book summary:Ludwig Bemelmans - legendary bon vivant, raconteur and self-mythologiser - lived life like a character from a novel. Thankfully for us he was there to write about it himself. After an idyllic Tyrolean childhood followed by an equally rebellious adolescence, Ludwig was shipped off to America by his family. He spent years working in New York's hotel and restaurant demimonde and a period in the US Army before eventually becoming a celebrated artist and writer. He moved seamlessly from below stairs to mixing with the rich and famous. He spent time in Hollywood, designed sets for Broadway, opened restaurants and travelled on endless adventures through South America and Europe. Wherever Ludwig went and whatever he did -letting Parisian criminals baby-sit his daughter, getting caught with his toenails painted red by the Gestapo or discovering the only restaurant with toilets in the Amazon jungle - you were guaranteed magic and pure entertainment. When You Lunch with the Emperor paints an enchanted picture of this life less ordinary through Bemelmans' finest tales. [via]
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The Woman of My Lifeby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0090010108 (0-09-001010-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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Madeline/Spanishby Ludwig Bemelmans , Ernesto Livon GrosmanISBN 014055761X (0-14-055761-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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