I remember the first time I found out about Madeline. My mama and daddy went to London to visit my aunt and uncle and they came home with Madeline in London for me. Being a red-headed little girl, I was over the moon to have a book about another red-headed girl. I had a major complex about being red-headed because I was the only one in my class. So along with Pippi, Madeline was added to my list of “reasons it is okay to be red-headed.”
Every so often mama would come home with a new Madeline book from OZ books. A big treat was when she came home with a Madeline doll for me! I still have that doll and she is still just as special to me at 25 as she was at 9-years-old.
John Bemelmans Marciano was here on Friday, February 18th at 4:30 to sign his new book and his other Madeline stories.
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