Madeline's Christmas is an illustrated children's picture book by Ludwig Bemelmans.

It was first published in 1956 as a special book insert to McCalls Magazine,[1] but it wasn't issued independently until 1985.

The day before Christmas, eleven girls and Miss Clavel catch a cold, except for Madeline.

In the 1990 television version of this story, an old lady named Madame Marie replaces the magician, and instead of the girls going home, their parents are visited to school and spend Christmas together.

Bemelmans is known to have spent a large amount of time before completing a single picture book.