Reviews for Madeline

The average rating for Madeline based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-20 00:00:00 Troy Adams On a recent morning the grandmothers got into a contest: who can remember more of Madeline by heart. They both did very well. My wife and I are getting there. Madeline means a lot to us, partly because we grew up with it, and partly because on our kid's stomach is also a scar - his guts were like all in the wrong place or whatever - so it has Special Meaning for us. I'm the one on the left. I know it's hard to tell. But also it means a lot to our kid, who if you show him Madeline and any other book in the world will definitely pick Madeline, and if you show him two different books he may very well just complain until you go get Madeline. He loves this book, and we don't know why. He doesn't speak English and he's never been to Paris. Maybe he likes that Joanne and I collapse in hysterics every time we get to the doctor dialing DAN-ton ten six, which by the way is also the name of our imaginary children's band, but this is far from the only children's book that makes us collapse in hysterics. We think he has an eye for design - he also likes Charley Harper and Andy Warhol, don't ask, or go ahead and ask, what do I care, the answer is we're pretentious - so maybe it's just those terrific evocative scribbles of Bemelmans'. They're incredible, right? This one is my favorite, Notre Dame in rain. Who cares why, anyway, this is his very first favorite book and he has impeccable taste so far. Some day maybe he'll read it to his kid, and he'll know it by heart too.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-17 00:00:00 Brent Black I read this for BookTubeAThon to fulfill the "read a book older than you" challenge. I remember having and reading this book as a kid, but now I'm kind of confused about what a kid would get out of the story. I guess it's just fun with the pictures and rhymes, but I didn't see much meaning (other than copy your friends? Wish you have an illness to be one of the cool kids?). I really have no idea how to rate this as an adult.