Mandy (Julie Andrews Collection)

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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.