It’s about a little orphan girl in England who is sort of an Annie without a Miss Hannigan, a gutsy kid who doesn’t have a home, and at least this one isn’t in the hands of a shrew who’s running her orphanage. Naturally, once Grandpop figured that out, he bought the books. The problem turned out to be that Julie Andrews wrote it under her legal married name, Julie Edwards. Initially we all thought it strange that a book by someone as well-known as Julie Andrews wasn’t more easily located. My cousin Theresa wanted a copy, so he decided to get one for each of us, but he could not find the book anywhere. It took a long while for Grandpop to find it. My grandfather bought it for me in 1974, and reading it, at age 13, was one of the finest highlights of my whole year. That book about a child saved from the Nazis by decent farmers in Holland has been crying out to be a movie since the early 1970s and some studio somewhere is going to realize it one day and make a mint.Īnother is MANDY, written by actress Julie Andrews.
I’ve written before about the non-fiction story, THE UPSTAIRS ROOM, by Johanna Reiss. It never ceases to amaze me that some of the very best books out there never seem to get made into movies. Occasionally, the stories include other friends such as Miss Muggin's niece Jilly Bunchy, a slightly younger girl who first appears in the story 'Milly-Molly-Mandy gets a New Dress', and Jessamine, a wealthy girl whose family often vacations at The House with the Iron Railings.One of the many covers of MANDY by Julie Edwards (Julie Andrews). Her friends are Billy Blunt, a slightly older boy whose parents run a corn shop and Little-Friend-Susan, who lives in the cottage down the road. Her parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle also live in the cottage. She lives in "the nice white cottage with the thatched roof" on the edge of a small village. Her adventures are the everyday events of village life: running errands, going to school, making presents, fishing, picnicking, and so on. Milly-Molly-Mandy's real name is Millicent Margaret Amanda, but she was given the nickname because of the length of her full name.
Translations have been published in at least nine languages, including Finnish, Polish and Icelandic. The illustrations show Milly-Molly-Mandy growing from about age four through to age eight. The books follow a little girl, Milly-Molly-Mandy, who wears a pink-and-white striped dress. Milly-Molly-Mandy is a set of six children's books written and illustrated by English writer Joyce Lankester Brisley published over the period 1928 to 1967.
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