Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Series: Madeline
Narrator: Jean Richards
Unabridged: 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Live Oak Media
Published: 10/30/1985
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) was an Austrian-born American writer and illustrator of books for children and adults. He traveled to American in 1914, at the age of sixteen, and worked for three years in the dining halls of what he called, in his autobiographical works, the Hotel Splendide. In 1926, he quit working in hotels to become a full-time cartoonist and made frequent contributions to the New Yorker, Vogue, and Town and Country. He is perhaps most well-known as the author of the beloved Madeline books.
Pepito the son of the Spanish ambassador moves in next door to Madeline's house. He catches animals, catapults bending girls and eventually catches a cat with the purpose of letting it loose with some dogs. Because of his cruelty he is injured and has time to reflect in hospital. Wise Miss Clavel re......more
Feisty French schoolgirl meets high-spirited Spanish schoolboy in this third picture-book adventure from Austrian-American children's author Ludwig Bemelmans, and sparks fly. When the Spanish Ambassador and his family move in next door to her boarding school in Paris, Miss Clavel is thrilled, but Ma......more
I loved the first Madeline book when I was a kid. Then I grew up and never read the rest. This one is the third in the series of six books. The Spanish ambassador moves in next door with his wife and son. The boy is intriguing to the six girls living with Miss Clavel but Madeline deems him a “bad ha......more