It's fun reading through it again and again as I know the story pretty well. My problem is that the despite being beautifully illustrated, it's illustrated WRONG. And by wrong, I mean, incorrect. If you don't know the story, there are 12 little girls in Paris and Madeline ends up in the hospital getting her appendix out and the other 11 girls are miserable about not getting their appendixes (appendexia?) out, too. The problem is that in some of the pages without Madeline, there are still 12 girls and other pages where they have 11. The story is also a little fishy as they talk about their Papa, but clearly the girls (who all seem the same age) are being raised by Miss Clavel. Is this some sort of home for orphans? Perhaps a boarding school? It's all very confusing. I still love the story though and now Andy gets to the page where Madeline talks to the tiger in the zoo and he says "pooh-pooh" just like her.
Desperate for a good night's sleep since 2005.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Madeline
Andy has really taken to the book Madeline, but Ludwig Bemelmans. That's a good thing as it's one of my favorites, too. 
It's fun reading through it again and again as I know the story pretty well. My problem is that the despite being beautifully illustrated, it's illustrated WRONG. And by wrong, I mean, incorrect. If you don't know the story, there are 12 little girls in Paris and Madeline ends up in the hospital getting her appendix out and the other 11 girls are miserable about not getting their appendixes (appendexia?) out, too. The problem is that in some of the pages without Madeline, there are still 12 girls and other pages where they have 11. The story is also a little fishy as they talk about their Papa, but clearly the girls (who all seem the same age) are being raised by Miss Clavel. Is this some sort of home for orphans? Perhaps a boarding school? It's all very confusing. I still love the story though and now Andy gets to the page where Madeline talks to the tiger in the zoo and he says "pooh-pooh" just like her.
It's fun reading through it again and again as I know the story pretty well. My problem is that the despite being beautifully illustrated, it's illustrated WRONG. And by wrong, I mean, incorrect. If you don't know the story, there are 12 little girls in Paris and Madeline ends up in the hospital getting her appendix out and the other 11 girls are miserable about not getting their appendixes (appendexia?) out, too. The problem is that in some of the pages without Madeline, there are still 12 girls and other pages where they have 11. The story is also a little fishy as they talk about their Papa, but clearly the girls (who all seem the same age) are being raised by Miss Clavel. Is this some sort of home for orphans? Perhaps a boarding school? It's all very confusing. I still love the story though and now Andy gets to the page where Madeline talks to the tiger in the zoo and he says "pooh-pooh" just like her.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment