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Mandy julie andrews6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Judith Gwyn Brown's Edward Gorey-esque pen and ink drawings (with none of Gorey's sinister air) are quietly memorable. Any sometimes-lonely child with a giant imagination will recognize Mandy's dreams and rejoice in her ultimate fairy-tale happy ending. ![]() Holding her secret closer and closer to her heart, this imaginative dreamer inadvertently endangers her reputation-and her life.įor 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. 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. 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. Really, 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. For an orphan child whose life is filled with comfortable, predictable sameness, with no particular hardships, life is, well, all right. ![]()
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