Madeline and the Gypsies (Picture Puffin Books)

Madeline and the Gypsies (Picture Puffin Books)
by Ludwig Bemelmans

Madeline and the Gypsies (Picture Puffin Books)
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Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 0140566473
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Book Review: Not exactly politically correct
Summary: 5 Stars

But you know, how will future generations know history if every children's book is cleansed? The negative connotation of gypsy can be explained later. For now, let your kids enjoy this treasure. Besides, the "gypsy mama" in this book is portrayed as a kind and loving woman, despite her role as a kidnapper.

Summary of Madeline and the Gypsies (Picture Puffin Books)

Madeline and Pepito have run off to join the carnival with a band of traveling gypsies! At first they're having the time of their lives, but then they get homesick. Leave it to clever Miss Clavel to find Madeline and Pepito and bring them home.

One day Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador who lives next door to Madeline, invites her and her cohorts to a Gypsy carnival. They venture forth excitedly, but suddenly a storm hits the fairgrounds, so everyone hops in a taxi and heads back home. Except for Madeline and Pepito, that is--forgotten and stuck at the top of a Ferris wheel in a downpour. Pepito climbs down to get help, and the Gypsy Mama takes the children under her wing ... and on the road. Gypsy life affords many previously forbidden wonders to the two kids--they get to float in a pool while everyone else is in school, and they don't have to brush their teeth, or even sleep. In between learning how to walk the tightrope and juggling, they send Miss Clavel a postcard. "'Thank heaven,' she said, 'The children are well! / But dear, oh dear, they've forgotten how to spell.'" As she and Madeline's 11 classmates race to find them (based on the postmark location), the Gypsy Mama sees the approaching Parisian posse in her crystal ball. Despite the Gypsy Mama's worst intentions, and the fact that she sewed the children into an old lion's costume to hide them, Madeline and Pepito are reunited with Miss Clavel and the others. The Chicago Tribune writes, "How inevitable that the irrepressible Madeline should one day meet up with gypsies.... As absurd and amusing as ever." (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson

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