![]() And, call me super ignorant, but all these years, I had no idea that Julie Andrews was an author at all, much less that she wrote Mandy. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. ![]() I think that what I really enjoy about this story is how Mandy has to learn about balance in her life–that having a special secret isn’t worth sacrificing honesty and friendship.īy the by, as I read these books I haven’t read since childhood, I like to look up and see if favorite authors ever wrote anything else. 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. She discovers an abandoned cottage and adopts it, planting flowers in the garden and cleaning the little house. This book is about a young girl who lives in an orphanage (Mandy, of course) and her desire to have something of her own. ![]() Many of them, like this one, I have owned for so long that my name in the front just says “Sarah W” in scraggly print, since I’ve owned them since before I could write in cursive! The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews//Īlrighty, so, continuing my walk down memory lane, I’m reading all the books I own.
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