By John Bemelmans Marciano

Madeline and friends are off to enjoy a wonderful American adventure. The White House in Washington, D.C., is their destination, where they are guests of the president's lonely only daughter for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Cake and ice cream, dress-up games, and scary stories told in the dark are capped off by a magical nighttime tour of the capital's most famous landmarks, before it's time for the twelve little girls in two straight lines to say, "Au revoir, America!"

By John Bemelmans Marciano

The Paris skies are gray and gloomy, so Miss Clavel and the twelve little girls set out to find the sun. The time has come for spring in Rome! There are glorious sights to see and delicious pasta to eat, and of course the intrepid Madeline finds herself in the midst of an adventure, one involving a thief, a chase, and many, many cats.

By John Bemelmans Marciano

Ludwig Bemelmans' grandson discovered, completed, and published this untold Madeline story along with two sweet holiday tales about a desperately poor cobbler and music teacher who find holiday happiness. Your Madeline fan can cross the ocean with the exuberant French orphan to find the thrills of horseback riding and touring the world's greatest store. She'll even get a hint as to what really happens in this favorite character's future.

By John Bemelmans Marciano

How would we eat lunch if not for the Earl of Sandwich? Behead people without Joseph-Ignace Guillotin? Do gymnastics if Jules Leotard had never existed? Although linguists don't have a name for these people, wo do -- they're anonyponymous. That is, they are eponymous, having given their names to something other than themselves, but also anonymous, having since been forgotten. And though we've long taken them for granted, they turn up everywhere.

By John Bemelmans Marciano

It's no secret that America's cookouts owe a lot to the European towns of Frankfurt and Hamburg. But it's not just what we eat: What would you put in your cooler if not for the exports of Budweis and Pilsen? Likewise, we know who to thank for Panama hats and Bermuda shorts. Bud did you know that Tuxedo Park, New York, brought Americans a staple of formal wear? Or that Bikini Atoll gave us something dramatically less formal? In this ingenious follow-up to the popular Anonyponymous, John Bemelmans Marciano brings us a new, geographic, way of thinking about words. This book takes us on a lively tour of American, European, and world history, revealing our linguistic heritage in all its richness and -- to use another toponym -- serendipity. Illustrated with maps drawn in Marciano's witty style, this book is consistently smart, entertaining, and enlightening.