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Mandy (Julie Andrews Collection)

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Mandy, the first children’s novel ever written by the beloved star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, is a modern classic.

Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the out of doors world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. Throughout the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it really hers. From time to time she “borrows” things she needs from the orphanage. From time to time, to guard her secret, she even lies. Then, one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy gets sick, and no one knows how to find her—aside from a special friend she didn’t know she had.

This is the easiest book for ten-year-old girls who love tiny houses and stories filled with hope.

For an orphan child whose life is stuffed with comfortable, predictable sameness, with no particular hardships, life is, well, all right. In point of fact, what does Mandy have to worry about? So it comes as a surprise even to Mandy when a small restlessness begins to grow in her. This lonely ache sets her to wandering farther afield, and leads her to a startling and wonderful discovery over the orphanage wall–a very old, very small, seemingly abandoned cottage. Embarking on a clandestine domestic fantasy involving gardening tools and soap flakes, Mandy finds herself being less than honest about where and how she’s spending her days. Holding her secret closer and closer to her heart, this imaginative dreamer inadvertently endangers her reputation–and her life.

For each and every child who has fallen in love with The Secret Garden or A Little Princess, Julie Andrews Edwards’s 1971 novel will be a heartwarming discovery. Any From time to time-lonely child with a giant imagination will recognize Mandy’s dreams and rejoice in her ultimate fairy-tale happy ending. Judith Gwyn Brown’s Edward Gorey-esque pen and ink drawings (with none of Gorey’s sinister air) are quietly memorable. Fans of Julie Andrews Edwards–Sound of Music star of stage and screen–will be thrilled to see her contemporary children’s book, Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea, or to an earlier favorite, The Last of the In point of fact Great Whangdoodles. (Ages 8 to 12) –Emilie Coulter

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