This is one of the classic Madeline stories. In this book, which is intended for early-middle elementary readers, Madeline, her friends, and Ms. Clavel travel to London to visit their friend Pepito, who is sick because he misses them so much. The rest of the book is made up of their adventures travelling around London and seeing the sights and the people.
What I liked most about this book are the illustrations. They are very colorful and I like the heavy black lines that outline the figures. I also like that the story is told in rhyme. A flaw with this book is that the story kind of jumps all over the place and can be hard to follow at times- there are events in the story that are never resolved and on the next page something entirely different is started. This may confuse readers who are used to a more linear, straighforward progression in storytelling. Despite being inconsistent at times I would recommend having this book in the classroom for students to read in their free time.
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