Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans

1939 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition
Where it all started - "In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines... the smallest one was Madeline."

First edition of Bemelmans' classic children’s tale. A 1940 Caldecott Medal Honors title. In it’s scarce dust-jacket, ni gift inscriptions and with bright coloured pictorial boards.
 
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Madeline's Rescue - Ludwig Bemelmans

1953 - Viking, New York - First Edition
One day on a walk through Paris, Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, ‘But for a dog that kept its head,’ saving her from a ‘watery grave.’ And so the adventure begins….

Recipient of the 1954 Caldecott Medal, with illustrations by the author.
 
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