Question

Long character of madeline in class 10th

Answer 1

The small, brave heroine of these sweet tales is full of infectious fun, but adult readers can sense the sadness behind the fun

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“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines …” If you know these lines at all you cannot help but know more of them; the rhythm practically defies you not to continue: “lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they broke their bread and brushed their teeth and went to bed.”

And the smallest of them all, of course, is Madeline. When I started reading the Madeline books to my daughter it was well over 30 years since they had been read to me by my mother – and yet all the lines were there in my head, waiting. Before my daughter was three, we were batting them back and forth on car journeys: “She was not afraid” “…of mice!” “She loved winter, snow?” “… and ice!”; “To the tiger in the zoo, Madeline just said?” “… pooh-pooh!”