The beloved book character joins in the fun at the annual Easter Egg Roll If you didn’t grow up reading Madeline books, chances are your children did. The whimsical stories, written and illustrated by ...

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 ...

A little French girl and her schoolmates will be making their presence known in Southern California this spring: Madeline and her friends are a theme of artwork for the 16th annual Los Angeles Times ...

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Madeline, that little girl who grew up in a Catholic boarding school in Paris, just turned 75, but she doesn’t look a day over 7. That was her age in the classic children’s books written and drawn by ...

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 ...

John Bemelmans Marciano, author and illustrator of "Madeline at the White House," will read from the book and talk about the famous "Madeline" series at 11 a.m. on April 9 at the Odyssey Bookshop at 9 ...

The qualities that make a children’s story enduring and memorable are ineffable. Is it the way a certain character is depicted? Is it the way a setting is convincingly constructed? Is it the perfect ...

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 ...

Madeline may be about to celebrate her 75th birthday next year, but the beloved little girl never seems to grow up. After more than seven decades she's still having adventures donned in her coat and ...