Madelines's Rescue

Madeline's Rescue is written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans.

Picture Book

1st - 3rd Grade

4 out of 5

This book was about a house of 12 little girls. One little girl, Madeline, falls in the river and is saved by a dog. The girls keep the dog until the dog is taken away after an inspection on the house. In the end the dog returns home pregnant and has 12 puppies.

I really liked Madeline's Rescue. I also liked this book when I was young. This book is Caldecott Medal winner. I personally love the pictures and can understand why the book won this award. Some of the picture are just yellow, black, and white with little detail, while some are all colors and very detail-oriented. I think these different picture make the book different from many other books because usually illustrators have the same technique throughout an entire book leaving all the pictures to have the same look. I think the plot of this book was good because it actually had a story, a beginning, climax, and ending. I think that the ending is really cute because after the girls have been fighting about who the dog gets to sleep with, the dog has exactly enough puppies for each girl to have her own to sleep with. Another reason I liked this book is because of the rhyming. Every sentence rhymed making it fun and easy to read.

I do not think that this book would have a specific place in the classroom. However, it would be a good book to have in the classroom library. I think that a lot of girls would love this book to read during guided reading time. It would be a good book for students to read when learning about rhyming.