Also, "People think that Miss Clavel is a nun, and she's not." Though set in a school, the books are anything but academic. "One thing I love about the Madeline books is there are no classrooms ...

Pepito is bad news. No, worse: He’s a bad hat, says Madeline, Miss Clavel’s little French student. In “Madeline and the Bad Hat” by Ludwig Bemelmans, Pepito and his Spanish ambassador ...

Madeline, you know I love you. ... And Miss Clavel had a dress code to stick to. She couldn't compete with people like Beyonce, who's somehow managing to out-chic the French girls in simple all ...

is a watercolor-and-crayon drawing from the original Madeline book, showing Miss Clavel and the girls in the Tuileries Gardens right before they go to visit Madeline in the hospital, where she's ...

Miss Clavel literally got out of bed to hear these ... you back to your childhood and the awkwardness that came with it, Madeline is worth revisiting.

Bemelmans takes up where he left off when he noted earlier of Madeline: “And nobody knew so well / How to frighten Miss Clavel.” One of the frightening things Madeline liked to do was walking ...

The youngest of which is, of course, Madeline. Everyone in her boarding school, including Miss Clavel, heads outside one chilly Christmas Eve without their scarves. They all fall ill ...

It turns out that a ghost haunts the vine-covered Parisian house that Madeline, Miss Clavel, and the other girls inhabit—it’s that of the scientifically accomplished man who originally built ...

schoolmaster Miss Clavel, and neighborhood friend Pepito. The first book famously starts with an illustration depicting Madeline and her fellow students filing behind their schoolmaster ...

This holiday season will be unlike any other for Madeline and her friends. While on their morning walk with Miss Clavel, the girls come down with the flu, and as they take to their bed ...

But poor Miss Clavel won’t rest until she has brought them safely home. Music and dancing make this play fun for all! When Madeline and her friend, Pepito, get lost during a visit to the ...