Sender: Ragnarok7
I received this Penguin book cover postcard in the Alphabet RR, depicting 'H' for 'Hotel'.
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898 – 1962) was an Austrian/American author and illustrator and writer of children books. In this book he described his life as a restaurateur, in a hotel some claimed was based on The Ritz. But I know him best for his Madeline books, about a feisty French girl in a Parisian boarding school ran by nuns. It was turned into a cartoon series, and the series was shown on our local TV-children's channel many years ago. Because of Madeline, our local kids learnt some basic French like, "Au revoir!" and "Bonjour!"
From Madeline, "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines ..." Loved the rhymes!
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