Milly-Molly-Mandy And Billy Blunt (Milly-Molly-Mandy) By Joyce Lankester Brisley
Describes nine adventures with Milly Molly Mandy and Billy Blunt including those in which they go excavating ride a horse and have American visitors Milly Molly Mandy And Billy Blunt Milly Molly Mandy 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 illustrators They studied art firstly at Hastings School of Art then following their parents divorce in 1912 and the subsequent relocation of the girls and their father to Brixton at Lambeth School of Art All three sisters illustrated postcards for the publisher Alfred Vivian Mansell Co. A sweet book with lots of everyday Milly Molly Mandy adventures This time with Billy Blunt I love reading about the fun things that Milly Molly Mandy and her friends get up to during their day They re just relaxing slightly exciting and always with a little lesson about caring and friendship It s a nice way to remember what it was like to be a child and experience the joys of the simple activities in life I really love this series English Charming series This volume is not as easy to find and the first few books I had to track down a 1968 edition The stories also weren t quite as strong Still enjoyable but Milly Molly Mandy is older and some of the stories seemed a bit familiar in terms of plot English I loved these books as a child and still love them now English
Milly-Molly-Mandy And Billy Blunt (Milly-Molly-Mandy) By Joyce Lankester Brisley |
085997183X |
9780859971836 |
English |
88 |
Hardcover |