See how your favorite Madeline tales might have turned out differently.
Check out Bemelmans' earliest
works from the funny papers,
on Count Bric-A-Brac and Silly Willy.
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Hear the story of Parsley as it was told to Bemelmans, and take a look at the first published telling.
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Look At photos Bemelmans shot of Ecuador in the thirties inspiring Pedro, plus his own adventures on the Quito Express. |
It has occurred to me, while looking at the mountain of material, that a very good and useful and gay book could be made under the title of: THE MAKING OF A CHILDREN'S BOOK, in which these birth pangs and agonies and pressures are detailed...
--1/13/61 L.B.