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Madeline Madeline

Redheaded young girl Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic in solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington decides to sell the Madeline's school.

Starring:  Frances McDormand, Hatty Jones, Nigel Hawthorne
Directed by:  Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Release date: July 10, 1998
Running time: 1:28
MPAA Rating: PG for some momentary language
Tagline:  In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines...
Production: IMDb Details
Based on: Madeline (1939) by Ludwig Bemelmens
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Viking Press, 1939
Written and illus. by Ludwig Bemlemans

SUMMARY: Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.

Caldecott Honor Medal, 1940