Mandy

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Summary: Mandy
Review: I read this a while ago, and could totally connect. I have a younger sister who, when we were younger, would get into EVERYTHING. My bed, my journal, etc etc. and i had to share a room with her!
This book really gave me hope that one day i could have my own secret cottage, and fix it up.

Mandy is a 10 year old orphan who wants a place of her own. one day, she hops the mysterious wall to see whats on the other side. What she finds is a broken down abandoned cottage. this storty is about secrets, lies, friendship, love, and home improvement ;)

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Summary: favorite childhood books
Review: I read this book when I was a girl and it was one of may favorites. I then read it to my young daughter and it was one of those books that you hate to see end and you think about for weeks afterwards.She was just as enthralled. The images are lovely and the story is one for every little girl.It is written with that wonderful English flair. We now buy it for a birthday gift each time she is invited to a party and describe the story to each recipient. Now her friends are buying it for other friends and relatives. To me it is a true classic, right up there with Heidi and the Little Princess.

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Summary: A Place To Call Our Own
Review: I simply adore this book from start to finish. Mandy is a girl we all can relate to in one way or another. Simple, sweet, idealistic, and yes, she isn't perfect. When she come upon a small hidden cottage near her orphanage grounds, this little girl sets out to make it a place to call it her own -A refuge she can run to and place she can care for to ease her loneliness. We feel her disappointments and rejoice in her victories, we even feel the love for those whom she loves. This is a book about longing, wishes, and finding happiness. A pleasureable read for anyone who has ever felt alone in life.

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Summary: Mandy
Review: Mandy lives in a orphanage, and though she's relativly happy, she still dreams about what it would be like to have a place of her very own, away from the hustle and the bustle of the orphanage. She dreams that beyond the high wall that encircles the orphanage is an enchanted forest, home to unicorns and other untold wonders, as well as her very own Prince Charming, who no doubt lives in a castle and allows the creatures to come inside during the cold! Eventually her curiosity prompts her to sneak off one day and climb the wall, and once on the other side she follows a path through the forest. What she finds though is not a castle, but instead an abandoned cottage, shabby and umkempt from years of neglect. Immediatly the cottage mesmerizizes her, and she realizes that this is the very place she's been seeking! A place she can call her own! She embarks on a journey to fix the place up, sneaking out as often as she can to dust and sweep and tend to the little garden, pulling weeds and planting flowers and making it beautiful again. But how long will she be able to keep it up? Will the kindly but concerned Matron Bridie forbid her from going? Will she be able to keep it a secret? And will she ever find her Prince Charming? This charming book is perfect for anyone who's ever dreamed of having a secret place to call their own! I have read it many times and it never gets old!

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Summary: A very goodfirst novel, and a great read for kids & parents.
Review: Ms. Andrews tells an incredible, facinating, and delihtful story in this book, and parents should be recommended in getting this book fr their children. Mandy is a wonderful character, and I was rooting for her every step of the way, from her first journey to the cottage, to her strugles to keep her secret from the headmistress, to her ultimate triumph when the owner finally makes her fondest wish come true. It is a shame the hardcover version is a hard item to find, but I recomend the paperback version to anyone to get for their child's libary and for thier own as well. Stephen R. Saturda

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Summary: Amazing Read for All Ages
Review: Ten-year-old orphan, Mandy, feels like she has nothing of her own, and almost lost among the other thirty children at the orphanage run by Ms. Bridie, where she resides. She dreams of having her very own place, where she can spend time quietly by herself, and where she'll feel as if she belongs. So when she climbs over the large, stone, orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy is ecstatic to find a lonely little stone cottage, hidden among the forest trees and shrubberies. With a few items that she borrows from the orphanage, the cottage becomes a home away from home for Mandy, and a place that she can call her own. To protect her secret place, Mandy lies, and tells no one of where she disappears to for hours at a time. But when she becomes terribly sick, and the people who love her are unable to find her, she must rely on the help of a secret admirer, whom she never knew she had.

After reading MANDY, I am amazed to see that famed screen actress Julie Andrews, is as talented a writer, as she is a singer and film star. Andrews writes in such a poetic, and descriptive way, that helps the reader to imagine that they are really there alongside Mandy, helping her to tend to her beloved garden, and taking walks amongst the lovely forest. Mandy is a kind and intelligent young character, who longs for a family, and a place to call her own, whom you feel for greatly. Overall, the book MANDY was an amazing, and powerful read that will be loved by all, young and old. Do not miss this delightful story.

Erika Sorocco

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Summary: I really loved this book!
Review: The book Mandy was given to me on Easter about three years ago. I started reading it and immeadiately loved it. Mandy is about a ten year-old orphan girl who yearns for something she can call her own. Thenn one day she finds it. At the edge of the orphanage there is a high wall. Mandy climbs over it and follows a path till she discovers a wonderful little cottage! The rest of the story is about how she tries so hard to keep the cottage to herself. I loved this story because every kid shares Mandy's feelings at some point in their childhood.I could feel Mandy's feelings as if they were my own as I read the book.

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Summary: One girl...One secret...One whole new life!
Review: Well, this book blew me away! i simply loved it !!!!!. Its enchanting, exciting and most of all (and this is what i personally look for in a book) it has that kind of effect that makes you want to be IN the story. It is all about a girl, 10, who lives at an orphanage. Another i liked about this story is that the orpahnage isn't like all the other orphanages in othee stories. In other stories or most of them the ophanage is always bad and gloomy. Well, thats not the case here! Anywho Mandy climbs over the "big wall" which divinds the orphanages property, for the very first time and find a cottage. She starts working on it and fixing it up. It is a WONDERFUL story and if your looking to relax and read a good book then this is the one.

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Summary: heyyy all u young folks
Review: Yesterday I started and finished Ms. Edwards' book `Mandy', and I absolutely loved it. I never doubted I would enjoy it, because I tend to like anything Ms. Andrews does, but I'm pretty certain I loved this book for it's plotline and the lovely way it was written, rather than simply because I'm a fan of the author.

I loved the style in which it was written, so very descriptive of everything; the cottage, the garden, the animals Mandy met, they all seemed to be in such detail. I also loved some of the little expressions, such as
"It was a warm contentment, something like the feeling one gets when hot tea and honey slide way down into one's stomach, only ten times better."

And Ms. Andrews has all the emotions and feelings of all the characters involved exactly correct. I'm sure if I were Mandy I would feel the same way, and vice versa if I were Sue or Matron. Your heart really goes out to Mandy, especially when she is sick in the cottage, and when Bill and Anne are telling her that they want to adopt her.
Although the ending and some parts of the plot were perhaps slightly predictable, in this case that only enhances the story. It was lovely, because you had a fair idea what was going to happen, and then you were so glad when it did. Or I was anyway.

`Mandy' was a wonderful book, beautifully written, and an absolute joy to read. I'm sure there will be many children who can identify with it (whether with Mandy or Sue) or just enjoy it for the lovely style and great plot. I hope when others read it their parents are not interrupting them every five minutes, as was the case with me. That way they will have the chance to read it all in one go, as I'm sure I would have.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and I should like to congratulate Ms. Andrews Edwards on writing something so wonderful for her first story. Now I think I'll have to go and read `Dragon: Hound of Honour'. And I'm sure I'll read `Mandy' many times.
Personally, I think it was a very good thing that Ms. Andrews Edwards lost the bet with Jennifer. Look what we got out of it.