by Ludwig Bemelmans

What on earth could make Miss Clavel, Madeline, and her 11 nameless classmates leave belle Paris for the tea-and-crumpeted, sometimes trumpeted city of London?

A mission to cheer up the lonely, thin, increasingly despondent Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, who had to move away from his house next door to Madeline's in Paris.

In their efforts to cheer him up, and for a birthday surprise, Miss Clavel and the girls buy him a retired horse.

All is fine until the horse gallops off at the sound of the trumpet to take his place at the head of the queen's Life Guards (his occupation before retiring). As readers whoosh through busy London scenes, we forget the horse has had nothing to eat all day.

Upon his return to Pepito's home, he eats everything in sight: "The gardener dropped his garden hose. / There wasn't a daisy or a rose. / 'All my work and all my care / For nought! Oh, this is hard to bear.'" Meanwhile, as the horse is passed out from exhaustion and overeating, Pepito's mother says he has to go. And so Madeline and the others take the horse home with them to Paris, where "They brushed his teeth and gave him bread, / And covered him up / and put him to bed."

Ludwig Bemelmans charms us again with the uniquely skewed logic and matter-of-fact madness of childhood that young readers will adore.

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매델라인(Madeline)은 미국에서 애니(Anny)만큼이나 유명한 고아 소녀예요.

그녀에 관한 동화가 많이 있구요.

재미있게도 제 영어과외 선생님의 여동생 미들네임과 퍼스트 네임이 메델라인 애니라네요..ㅎㅎ

왜 그렇게 지었는지 모르지만 아무래도 놀림을 받긴하나봐요.

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Pepito moved to London. He was lonely and he missed Madeline.
His fateher invited Madeline and her friends to their house.

Madeline and her friends prepared Pepito's Birthday present.
It is a horse, becaus he wanted a horse.Madeline and Pepito rode the horse.
They had so mush fun.

But then Pepito's mother said "The horse has to go", because the horse has eaten the neighborhood's garden.
So Madeline will take care of the horse.

 


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