The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook: Macmillan Classics edition

Joyce Lankester Brisley

dic 2014 · Macmillan Children's Classics Libro 7 · Pan Macmillan

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Join the little girl in the candy-striped dress as Milly-Molly-Mandy does the gardening, goes to a party, and has a seaside adventure – whatever Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friends are up to, you're sure to have fun when they're around!

The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friends have charmed generations of children since their first publication in 1925. Perfect for reading aloud, these twenty stories will bring back happy memories for parents and grandparents and introduce younger readers to an enduringly popular heroine and her friends Little-Friend-Susan and Billy Blunt.

Gloriously illustrated with the author's original line drawings and a specially commissioned foreword, this beautiful hardback Macmillan Children's Classics edition of Joyce Lankester Brisley's The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook is a truly special gift to treasure.

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Joyce Lankester Brisley was born in 1896 and studied art at Lambeth Art School. The first Milly-Molly-Mandy stories were published in 1925 in the Christian Science Monitor, and a first collection of these stories was published in book form in 1928. An accomplished artist as well as a writer, she designed posters and book jackets and also illustrated the work of other authors. Joyce Lankester Brisley died in 1978, but Milly-Molly-Mandy's popularity lives on.