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Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

(Milly-Molly-Mandy)

Joyce Lankester Brisley

4.06 · Rating details · 143 ratings · 9 reviews

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Hardcover, 112 pages

Published October 6th 2018 by Macmillan (first published 1928)

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Oct 14, 2018 L.H. Johnson rated it really liked it

Shelves: adorable, beautiful, childrens-literature, classics, family, historical, love, picture-books, series, short-stories

Frequently charming and really rather beautifully done, this 90th anniversary edition of the Milly-Molly-Mandy stories is a lovely thing. It's been a long time since I read Milly-Molly-Mandy and if you're the same, here's a brief refresher. Written in the 1920s, MMM is a little girl who lives with her sprawling family in a pleasant little village, and she gets into several very small and rather adorable adventures. They were written and illustrated by Joyce Lankester Brisley who was the sister Frequently charming and really rather beautifully done, this 90th anniversary edition of the Milly-Molly-Mandy stories is a lovely thing. It's been a long time since I read Milly-Molly-Mandy and if you're the same, here's a brief refresher. Written in the 1920s, MMM is a little girl who lives with her sprawling family in a pleasant little village, and she gets into several very small and rather adorable adventures. They were written and illustrated by Joyce Lankester Brisley who was the sister of Nina K. Brisley who illustrated the Chalet School stories - and this is something that, in a nicely worded afterword, this edition told me and I made a proper 'I did not know that' face. The edition includes several of the short stories collected together and as mentioned has a lovely afterword that does something quite remarkable - it speaks to the child. It's not often you see an afterword that remembers the child audience as much as the adult, and Macmillan are to be commended for this.

The stories themselves are adorable. Simple, soft and very small adventures that even though they involve a lot of language that might not be familiar to a contemporary reader, these are stories that work because of how they feel. They are charming and gentle and simply told things, often centring around a task or an errand or a circumstance, and I did enjoy them. It doesn't mater if some of the phrases are unknown because these are good stories. Gentle, rich and lovely stories. Lankester Brisley could write, she really could.

An important thing to note is that this book also includes a lot of full colour illustrations. These are richly rendered things, full of lush and gentle detail and rather intensely evocatively. The village and the nice white cottage with the thatched roof are all there and it's all lovely. Harsher voices might call this sort of thing twee or outdated, but they're idiots and we know better. The Milly-Molly-Mandy books are gorgeous, gentle things, and in a world where that sort of thing seems somewhat hard to find, they shine. They really, really do.

I am grateful to the publisher for a review copy. ...more

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May 17, 2018 Maria rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Loved these books as a kid!

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Feb 06, 2018 Julie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

There's nothing quite like going back and reading a book that you used to love as a kid. Still enjoyed it now.

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Oct 26, 2014 Superpopielica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Great as a transition between picture books and more advanced reading because of the use of repeating phrases in each stories (if I read 'nice white cottage with the thatched roof where Milly-Molly -Mandy lived' one more time...).
Milly-Molly-Mandy could do with being less of a goody-goody but that's my only complaint.

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Jul 05, 2019 Kristin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Sweet little collection of stories. My 6 and 3 year old loved them more than I did; there isn’t much that happens but they were intrigued by how things were different in her world and I think the simplicity appealed to them.

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Jul 17, 2013 Heather rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: timeless-childrens

Wonderful as always.

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Jun 13, 2013 Hrefna Brynja rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I was probably eight or nine when I first read this book and I read it or tried to read it a few times. I don't think that I would like it now though.

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Mar 15, 2013 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: childhood

Upon finding it under my bed and re-reading it thought it was very twee, can see why my sister didn't like my taste in books when we were children!

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Feb 11, 2014 E added it · review of another edition

Shelves: childhood

Taken out from the State Library with Hedy

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Joyce Lankester Brisley (6 February 1896 – 1978) was an English writer. She is most noted for writing and illustrating the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor.

The second of three daughters of George Brisley, a pharmacist, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, Brisley's sisters - Ethel Constance, the eldest, and Nina Kennard, the youngest - were also ...more