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I absolutely adored listening to Julie Andrews read her book. What a delightful story! 4/5⭐️ Thanks for sharing this YouTube find @MemoirsForMe - it was pure gold!💜
Read for July‘s #ChildrensClassicRead2025 pick
#100DayProject2025 Book 16/50
(August 10, 2025)

Such a sweet book!
I loved listening to Julie Andrew‘s read her book. She‘s so comforting!
(It‘s on YouTube in 4 parts)

Thanks @TheBookHippie
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#DogsOfLitsy

I forgot to post last week. I don‘t know how I escaped reading Mandy before now as it remains one of my daughter‘s favorite books. It is delightful and she was so surprised when I told her it was written by Julie Andrew‘s!

I loved Woodworking! So glad it was a #CampLitsy25 selection.

@Read4life

How did I not read this as a little girl? It's so exactly my cup of tea, evoking memories of The Secret Garden, Sensible Kate and other beloved orphan stories. I like how Mandy starts out seeming so perfect, but we learn she has a lot of normal childish feelings and dumb ideas. 😂 And the ending is just perfect, because it addresses the unasked question of a lot of orphanage stories -- what about the other kids?

#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2025

What a sweet story! Yes, I cried during the Winter chapters.😭 I heard that in 1968 Julie & husband Blake Edwards were shooting a movie in Ireland at an old manor house enclosed with thick walls & a cottage decorated entirely with seashells. “The moment I saw it, Julie says, “the seed of a story lodged in my mind.” Thrilled this amazing actress/singer added writing children‘s books to her repertoire.🤩🙌🏻
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@TheBookHippie

It may be menopause, but Mandy has made emotional. A realistic look of an orphan who experienced bitterness and frustration because she doesn't understand the feelings of desiring something of her own. She thinks it's a cottage she needs, but it's a family.

It just reminds me of the peace and joy of reading my wonderful books as a child. The font, the yellowing pages, the smell, all make me forget I am an adult and I back to simpler times.

Sweet book with beautiful illustrations #middlegrademarch #doublebookedcobookclub

She‘s Mary Poppins, Maria von Trapp, Queen Clarisse of Genovia, Lady Whisteldown… and a beloved author! 👑 She‘s Julie Andrews (Edwards), and on the new episode of my podcast, Erin La Rosa joins me for a full fangirl session about this icon and her first published work, MANDY. We talk about the book‘s emotional complexity, orphan stories, frenemies, and more. 🌸🌻 listen at the link in my bio!

This was so cute! All of the classic British children's novel style, plus the fun of hearing Julie Andrews' voice in my head as I read it. #childrensliterature

Mandy is one of my very favorite cozy, nostalgic reads! The title character is a lonely young orphan who discovers a #cottage in the woods and makes it a place of her own, fixing up the interior and #planting a beautiful garden. After being rescued during a frightening storm, Mandy finds her family at last. I never get tired of this sweet story. #WindsOfMarch #LitsySpringBreak
@Eggs @TheKidUpstairs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Mandy unfolds over the course of a year, but the first part of the story is #SetDuringSpring. An orphan longing for a home of her own, Mandy discovers a little cottage and decides to make it her own secret place. #Conflict soon arises- she has to lie to keep it secret, and soon she is forbidden from going out- but in the end, Mandy finds what she's been searching for. #magnificentmarch #MarchMadness
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

I never had one single #childhoodfavorite, but a whole collection of strong girls doing badass things. #SpringIntoReading

I've been at a conference all week and need to get this house back in order, but instead I've been spending my morning with Mandy.

I finally read Mandy and it was just as delightful as everyone told me it would be. (Also if it took place today, when Mandy found the room made of seashells, she would charge people admission to take photos in it for their Instagram accounts.)❤️📚❤️

As I was unpacking boxes of old books I came across this absolute gem from my childhood. This book was magical for me. I still love books about secret gardens and hidden cottages. 🏡. I guess I just graduated from Julie Andrews to Kate Morton.

Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.

So fun when you discover your favorite book from childhood is also the favorite of other Littens. After comment conversation, @megt and I definitely agree it‘s lucky our copies survived our many childhood readings!

(And, yes, the author is THAT Julie Andrews🤓)

When I #NeedHappilyEverAfter I tend to turn back to the books of my childhood. I might not reread them, but simply seeing them on the shelf or flipping through a few pages reminds me of the joy they brought me before. Mandy was one of my absolute favorites. One of the few books I finished only to turn back to page 1 and start reading all over again.

#HappinessIsResistance
@writerlibrarian

This was one of my favourite books growing up. Definitely recommend it to children and adults. It's such a beautifully written story by Julie Andrews ❤ An easy 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

These are my #happyreads. Mandy was my favorite book as a kid and these two are still some of my favorites even as an adult. #marchintoreading

When I was young my mom would take us to the book store, give us five bucks and set us loose. This book was a find that forever changed my life. #mandy #julieedwards #julieandrews #alltimefavorite #momswhoread #readingrunsinthefamily #familieswhoread #readjanuary #titlewithapropername

Also pictured: Mary Poppins, Benjamin Button, and Scott Pilgrim.

Sick as a dog today, but loving Mandy and my new aloe-infused socks 😀
I can't believe I didn't know this book until just recently, when I heard about it on the What Should I Read Next podcast!

My #onewordtitle is Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards. Yes, that Julie Andrews! #PhotoADayNov16

Missed a couple of days of the #augustphotochallenge while I focused on preparing for school. Now I'm back just in time for #day28. When I need #feelgoodbooks, I usually turn to old favorites. This was one of my most-read books as a child. I dreamed of a secret hideaway like hers, with reading nooks all over the house and garden, a place all to myself. I still get all daydream-y about a house like that.

I still have my favorite childhood book, originally published in 1971. You may know this author better as Julie Andrews of Sound of Music & Mary Poppins fame. Mandy is a lonely little girl who climbs over the wall of her orphanage and finds an abandoned cottage. She decides to fix it up and lovely things come into her life as a result. Magical! #funphotofriday

Going old school with my #recommendsday pick! Written by Julie Edwards (AKA Julie Andrews, AKA Mary Poppins!), Mandy was one of my favorite books in elementary school. The finer details of the story are lost to me now, but I'll never forget the sense of wonder it filled me with all those years ago.