The very first book featuring the little girl in a coat and yellow hat, “Madeline,” appeared in 1939, and the Madeline series has continued ever since. On Friday, NPR got the jump on Madeline’s ...

Many Americans know every line of the children’s books starring Madeline, the pesky, hat-wearing redhead who lived in an “old house in Paris that was covered in vines.” Growing up in the 1970s, John ...

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 ...

MANY Americans know every line of the children’s books starring Madeline, the pesky, hat-wearing redhead who lived in an “old house in Paris that was covered in vines.” Growing up in the 1970s, John ...

Other good things come in book packages. Madeline's Christmas Book and Doll boxes up a copy of Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline's Christmas plus a 7"" toy Madeline. The doll wears a festive red coat and ...

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 ...

Ludwig Bemelmans’ Madeline books (AKA, the books everyone’s parents give to them when they have appendicitis) are a lovely glimpse inside an idyllic Catholic boarding school in Paris. But what if ...