How the Author of ‘Madeline’ Created His Most Famous Character

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Ludwig Bemelmans said that the French schoolgirl was inspired by his mother, wife and daughter. “But,” his grandson wrote after his death, “certainly it was also part Bemelmans himself — the smallest in class, the one always in trouble.”
Books and Literature, Children and Childhood
April 27, 2018 at 07:00AM