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A review by larrys
Madeline and the Gypsies by Ludwig Bemelmans
4.0
Appearing near the end of the second Golden Age Of Children's Literature, this story isn't hard on gypsies (nor on nuns who run orphanages) like many earlier children's stories are. It's a feelgood, carnivalesque picturebook, and longer than almost any picturebook being published today.
We need to go back to slightly longer picturebooks, I feel -- away from the 300-400 word jokes and gags that are on the bestseller lists right now.
(This is 803 words in case you're wondering, coming in at exactly double what most publishers will even look at from a spec script today.)
We need to go back to slightly longer picturebooks, I feel -- away from the 300-400 word jokes and gags that are on the bestseller lists right now.
(This is 803 words in case you're wondering, coming in at exactly double what most publishers will even look at from a spec script today.)