The beloved book character joins in the fun at the annual Easter Egg Roll If you didn’t grow up reading Madeline books, chances are your children did. The whimsical stories, written and illustrated by ...

Many Americans know every line of the children’s books starring Madeline, the pesky, hat-wearing redhead who lived in an “old house in Paris that was covered in vines.” Growing up in the 1970s, John ...

Madeline, that little girl who grew up in a Catholic boarding school in Paris, just turned 75, but she doesn’t look a day over 7. That was her age in the classic children’s books written and drawn by ...

That’s all there is — there won’t be any more. The grandson of the creator of the beloved “Madeline” series — who wrote seven of the books himself — says he is abandoning the plucky French boarding ...

The very best books of childhood manage to stay young, generation after generation. Count Faith Salie first in line, to mark a big birthday for "Madeline": "In an old house in Paris, that was covered ...