5/19/2023 0 Comments More of milly molly mandy![]() ![]() ![]() Storytelling (in the voice of an oral narrator).I believe Joyce Lankester Brisley was a better draughtswoman than she was a prose stylist, but in the end, her greatest strengths were: The illustrations were done by the author herself. The Milly Molly Mandy series has been reprinted in various formats and some of those are now colour illustrations - sometimes in pastels, sometimes in the limited palette of 1950s and 60s. The black and white line drawings do look like a colouring-in book. ![]() My mother’s version features illustrations with coloured-pencil scribbles. I was ten years old and started making maps for my own made-up stories. I may have been too old by the time I encountered my mother’s book. Even now, I open a Milly Molly Mandy book and I want to go back to that village. There is something so unbearably hygge about that little village. I never got into them myself, but I did fall in love with the endpaper hand drawn map. ![]() I’m not sure how popular these stories are among the contemporary audience, but I can say for sure, Milly Molly Mandy entertained at least two generations of children. Milly Molly Mandy is in fact the great-grandmother of today’s child readers. Milly Molly Mandy remains one of my mother’s favourite books, but even then it was old. Hairspray Character Teaser - Penny Pingleton ![]()
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