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Pepito is bad news. No, worse: He’s a bad hat, says Madeline, Miss Clavel’s little French student. In “Madeline and the Bad Hat” by Ludwig Bemelmans, Pepito and his Spanish ambassador ...
and neighborhood friend Pepito. The first book famously starts with an illustration depicting Madeline and her fellow students filing behind their schoolmaster, accompanied by the inimitable intro ...
In Marciano’s third Madeline title, he resurrects the mischievous character of Pepito, the son of the Spanish Ambassador who first appeared in Ludwig Bemelmans’s Madeline and the Bad Hat.
His illustrations and books continue to captivate readers of all ages, and in 2021, Illustration for 'Madeline and the Bad Hat’ ("Pepito carried a bulging sack") (mixed media on paperboard laid down ...
To backtrack, Madeline weaves a lot of the book storylines together: getting a dog, bursting an appendix, that jerk Pepito, joining the circus, it’s all touched upon. The main plot, though ...