Madeline, the classic children’s book series about a plucky little French girl’s adventures at boarding school, turns 75 this year, and the New-York Historical Society is marking the anniversary with ...

The new book, the first full-length Madeline story since Ludwig's "Madeline in London" in 1961, has a prominent shelf spot in one of Manhattan's top children's bookstores despite grumbling that the ...

Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans’ spunky little French student, will stop by Barnes & Noble in Ellicott City this Saturday during the morning story time. The fictional redhead will be the subject of the ...

Madeline, that little girl who grew up in a Catholic boarding school in Paris, just turned 75, but she doesn’t look a day over 7. That was her age in the classic children’s books written and drawn by ...

An incurable rebellious streak and a strong distaste for German discipline left 16-year-old Ludwig Bemelmans, during the Christmas season of 1914, with two options: report to reform school or make his ...

That’s all there is — there won’t be any more. The grandson of the creator of the beloved “Madeline” series — who wrote seven of the books himself — says he is abandoning the plucky French boarding ...

Austrian-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898, in Merano, Austria-Hungary, now located in modern-day Italy. His father was a painter and hotel owner and his mother an amateur ...

AMHERST - There are many surprises in the intensely lovely exhibit “Madeline at 75: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans” on view through Feb. 22 at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. Here’s ...

The very best books of childhood manage to stay young, generation after generation. Count Faith Salie first in line, to mark a big birthday for "Madeline": "In an old house in Paris, that was covered ...

Madeline, the inquisitive French schoolgirl from Ludwig Bemelmans’s eponymous picture book series, may seem right at home in the impressionistic and quintessentially Parisian landscape of Bemelmans’s ...