![]() ![]() I think I might start reading this one aloud to my daughter it’s a truly timeless story that I hope she’ll enjoy just as much as I did. The book has an almost fairytale happily-ever-after ending, which is entirely satisfying in a book of this sort. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. ,Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. It captures the experience of falling in love with a place perfectly, and Mandy is a great heroine, with her longing for a home she’s never known driving her to commit all sorts of childhood crimes - lying, stealing, and being mean to her best friend. Mandy, the first childrens novel ever written by the beloved star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, is a modern classic. Mandy is a sweet story about a little girl in an English orphanage who finds an abandoned cottage in the woods and sets out to make it her own special place. ![]() Both this one and her Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles were childhood favourites of mine. The “Julie Edwards” who wrote this book is actually “Julie Andrews” of Mary Poppins and Sound of Music fame - she went through a period of writing children’s books under her married name in the 70s (Her name appears as Julie Andrews Edwards on newer editions). ![]()
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