Ludwig Bemelmans
(1898 - 1962)
Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was an Austria-Hungary-born American writer and illustrator of children’s books and an internationally known gourmet. He is known best for the Madeline picture books. Six were published from 1939 to 1961; a seventh was discovered after his death and published posthumously in 1999.
Bibliography
A Carnival of Modern Humor (1967)
A collection of humorous pieces from the twentieth century.
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Stephen Leacock
P. G. Wodehouse
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A Carnival of Modern Humour (1968)
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Stephen Leacock
P. G. Wodehouse
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The Castle Number Nine (1937)
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The Children Come Running (1960)
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Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
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Roger Duvoisin
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Dogs, Heroes, Adventurers, Friends (1964)
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Rudyard Kipling
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Hamilton Greene
Fifi (1940)
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The Golden Basket (1936)
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Good Times Together (1958)
Includes Willie’s Pocket by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Crockett Johnson reproduced in color. An anthology for younger children about people around the world.
Hansi (1934)
Hansi spends Christmas with his aunt and uncle high in the mountains of the Tyrol.
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The Happy Place (1952)
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The High World (1954)
A novel about life in the Tyrol between the world wars.
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How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories (1946)
A collection of short stories including How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant, originally published as Rosebud by Ludwig Bemelmans along with The Man Who Kept House and Why the Bear Has a Short Tail.
Author(s):
May Hill Arbuthnot
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William S. Gray
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Anne Fleur
Ludwig Bemelmans’ Favorite Stories: Hansi, Rosebud and The Castle Number Nine (2016)
An Austrian boy spends the Christmas holidays in the Tyrolean mountains, a rabbit tries to prove he is the smartest animal and the Castle Number nine suffers a vocabulary disaster.
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Mad About Madeline (1993)
A compendium of all things Madeline from Madeline to Madeline’s Christmas.
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Madeline (1939)
The smallest of the twelve French orphans under the care of Madame Clavel wakes up one night with a tummy ache.
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Madeline (1954)
In an old house in Paris
That was covered in vines
Lived twelve little girls …
The smallest one was Madeline.
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Madeline: A Pop-Up Book (1987)
In an old house in Paris
That was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls …
The smallest one was Madeline.
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Ludwig Bemelmans
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Ludwig Bemelmans
Madeline and the Bad Hat (1956)
When Pepito the Spanish ambassador’s son moves in next door he disrupts the lives of the orphelines.
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Madeline and the Gypsies (1958)
Pepito and Madeline join a gypsy circus.
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Madeline and the Gypsies (1959)
Pepito persuades Madeline to run away with a gypsy circus.
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