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Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962)

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Ludwig Bemelmans, April 27, 1898 - October 1, 1962 Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898 in Meran, then Austria. At the age of eight, his parents divorced and he moved with his mother to Regensburg, Germany. He was enrolled into various public and private schools and failed out of most of visa mer them. At the age of twelve, unsure of what else to do with him, Bemelmans was apprenticed to an uncle in the hotel business and proceeded to go through many jobs, being repeatedly dismissed. After supposedly shooting and almost killing a waiter, his family gave him the ultimatum of reform school or emigration to the United States. He arrived in America in 1914 with reference letters from his uncle to various hotel managers in New York. Bemelmans obtained a job as a waiter in the Ritz-Carlton, but left that job to join the Army in 1917. In the Army, he worked with German speaking recruits and as a military hospital guard. In 1918, Bemelmans became a naturalized citizen, returning to hotel and restaurant work a year later, eventually opening his own restaurant. In the 1934, at the suggestion of one of his friends, Bemelmans began to write, producing his first children's book, "Hansi." He was best known though, for his series of books about the little french girl, "Madeline," which is still a childhood favorite. "Madeline's Rescue," the second book in the series, won the Caldecott Medal in 1953. His first book for adults was entitled, "My War with the United States" and was a diary of his experiences in the service during World War I. In fact, Bemelmans usually wrote his books based on his life experiences, such as "Life Class" and "Hotel Splendide," about his life as a restaurateur, his travels to Ecuador and Italy appeared in "The Donkey Inside" and "Italian Holiday," and his brief stint as a screenwriter in Hollywood was the basis for "Dirty Eddie." Bemelmans wrote about a book or two a year and was a contributor to Town and Country and Horizon, as well as a cover illustrator for The New Yorker. In his later years, Bemelmans enjoyed some small fame from painting, with some of his work appearing in various galleries. Ludwig Bemelmans died of pancreatic cancer in New York on October 1, 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Madeline (1939) 10,508 exemplar
Madeline's Rescue (1953) 4,146 exemplar
Madeline in London (1961) 2,100 exemplar
Madeline and the Bad Hat (1956) 2,043 exemplar
Madeline's Christmas (1985) 1,679 exemplar
Madeline and the Gypsies (1959) 1,281 exemplar
Mad about Madeline (1993) 1,138 exemplar
Hotel Bemelmans (1946) 218 exemplar
Hotel Splendide (1941) 133 exemplar
La Bonne Table (1964) 120 exemplar
When You Lunch With the Emperor (2004) 103 exemplar
Madeline Pop-up Book (1987) 82 exemplar
How to Travel Incognito (1951) 78 exemplar
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (1943) 64 exemplar
My War With The United States (1937) 58 exemplar
To the one I love the best (1955) 55 exemplar
The Golden Basket (1936) 48 exemplar
The Blue Danube (1945) 40 exemplar
Father, Dear Father (1953) 38 exemplar
Rosebud (1993) 36 exemplar
The donkey inside (1941) 33 exemplar
Sunshine (1950) 33 exemplar
Tell Them it Was Wonderful (1985) 33 exemplar
Life Class (1938) 32 exemplar
Madeline Paper Dolls (1994) 31 exemplar
Hansi (1934) 31 exemplar
Dirty Eddie (1947) 28 exemplar
Parsley (1955) 27 exemplar
My Life in Art (1958) 26 exemplar
The high world (1954) 22 exemplar
Small Beer (1939) 18 exemplar
Street Where the Heart Lies (1963) 18 exemplar
On Board Noah's Ark (1962) 17 exemplar
Are You Hungry Are You Cold (1960) 16 exemplar
The woman of my life (1957) 16 exemplar
Madeline : A Pop-up Carousel (1994) 14 exemplar
The Happy Place (1952) 13 exemplar
Quito Express (1938) 11 exemplar
The Eye of God (1949) 11 exemplar
Holiday in France (1957) 11 exemplar
Welcome home! (1960) 8 exemplar
Madeline's House (1989) 8 exemplar
Madeline in Texas (1999) 7 exemplar
The Castle Number Nine (1937) 6 exemplar
Italian Holiday (1961) 6 exemplar
Marina (1962) 5 exemplar
Love From Madeline (2021) 5 exemplar
Fifi (1940) 4 exemplar
Madeline's ABCs (2022) 3 exemplar
Madeline's 123 (2022) 3 exemplar
Cerfoglio (1778) 3 exemplar
New Yorker cover 2 exemplar
Putzi 2 exemplar
Made 1 exemplar
Madeline's Seasons (2023) 1 exemplar
Sacre du Printemps 1 exemplar

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The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Bidragsgivare — 457 exemplar
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 435 exemplar
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 430 exemplar
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 354 exemplar
Amerikan i Paris (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 297 exemplar
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Bidragsgivare — 291 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Classic Children's Characters (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 88 exemplar
Told Under the Christmas Tree (1941) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
Madeline [1998 film] (1998) — Original book — 71 exemplar
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Bidragsgivare — 60 exemplar
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 55 exemplar
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
Vogue's First Reader (1942) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
The Big Book of Favorite Dog Stories (1964) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
The Story Pocket Book (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Madeline: Lost in Paris [1999 film] (1999) — Original book — 13 exemplar
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Writing Books for Boys and Girls (1952) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor5 exemplar
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Madeline's Rescue [1990 TV movie] (1992) — Illustratör — 5 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1942 (1942) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Madeline's Christmas [1990 TV movie] (2005) — Original book — 4 exemplar
The Bathroom Reader (1946) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Die schönsten Hunde-Geschichten (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Madeline and the Toy Factory [1993 TV episode] (1998) — Illustratör — 2 exemplar
15 Great Stories of Today (1946) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Avon Annual: 18 Great Story of Today (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Madeline [1960 Shirley Temple Storybook TV episode] (1960) — Original book — 1 exemplar

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The is the first book I've read in the series regarding Madeline. I'll be sure to read more. In this rhyming book, Madelne's adventure includes the story of 12 little girls walking the two straight lines, leaving the house at half past nine.

Madeline, living in Paris, France is the smallest, fell from the wall and was rescued by a dog. The dog became part of the every day life of the group of the girls and their Mistress who took care of them. When a huge snow storm occurred, Lord Cucuface that the dog was a perfect disgrace and ushered him out the door into the snow.

The hunt for the dog was fruitless, and at night finally he was found. The 12 girls continued to argue regarding who would have the dog sleep with them. If they did not stop fighting the dog would need to leave. As the Mistress who previously made the dog stay outside discovered, there was a litter of puppies awaiting their dog.

All were more than happy as each little girl had her own dog to walk and pet all day and night long.

I liked the snappy poetic rhyming of the story!
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Whisper1 | 85 andra recensioner | Feb 16, 2024 |
I approached this book with some diffidence, humour, and the appropriate subjects of humour, often being very much of their time. The opening anecdotes were lightheartedly funny sketches of workers and patrons of the hotel, though there were parts that justified my reservations. Then, about ⅓ in, without losing the bantering tone, Bemelmans introduced some darker, even sinister, characters and situations, that might have raised eyebrows in polite society: Professor Gorylescu, the table magician, smoulders with a seedy loucheness that hints of more troubling proclivities.

Kalakobé, the one Black character, could have been a problem, and while Bemelmans does exoticise him somewhat, he presents him with dignity, noting that Kalakobé refuses the description "negro" and insists on his being "African".

There's a nasty incident at the end of the first anecdote which had raised my hackles, however, Bemelmans deftly weaves this into his final story: very satisfying. "Raconteur" fits Bemelmans well, and I had the feeling of hearing these stories in a corner of a dimly-lit dining hall after all the patrons have left, around a littered table with a stained cloth, waiters in shirt sleeves with unbuttoned collars, smoking cigar stubs and finishing off the opened wine and brandy bottles, regaling each other with the petty demands of diners and unwarranted tyrannies of the maître d'hôtel.
… (mer)
½
 
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Michael.Rimmer | 1 annan recension | Jan 27, 2024 |

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ISBN
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