It’s the night before christmas, but something is not right with the famous twelve little girls in two straight lines . All of them are sick in bed with terrible colds - except the indomitable madeline, who must run the school, for even miss clavel is not feeling very well. But leave it to madeline to find a remarkable way to turn a christmas disaster into a special holiday treat. This newest addition to the madeline canon contains the familiar charming drawings and rhymed verse that have placed the madeline series among the best-loved books of childhood. NOT UK/OM