Favourite Books

The little girl in this little book was one of my favourite people when I was growing up. If I could have jumped inside the pages to be her best friend I would have done. But she already had a best friend called Susan, otherwise known as 'little friend Susan'.

Her other friend was Billy Blunt who's Father was the village Blacksmith and who she had lots of great adventures with like the time they went fishing together

One of my favourite parts of the Milly Molly Mandy books was the map of the village at the beginning of the book. I believe it's because of this map that I now am totally facinated by maps and can spend hours looking at them when we're going on a trip and even when we get back from a trip to see where we've been. I would look endlessly at MMM's village map, tracing routes with my fingers and remembering the various stories and where on the map they took place.

I should point out that this is a vintage copy that Mum bought me a couple of years ago and it seems the previous owner decided to do a spot of colouring on the map!

I think the reason I loved my Milly Molly Mandy books so much was because they depicted a lovely innocent English Country Life. She lived in the kind of pretty English village that I still long to live in. I like to imagine that somewhere out there there's still a little girl in a red and white stripey frock living in a little cottage with a thatched roof, camping in a home made tent in the field, fishing for tadpoles in the brook and having dolls tea parties on the lawn with her little friend Susan.

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Comments

[Anastasia]

i have this book too!!! love love love
Milly Molly Mandy...I always wanted to live in her village and be her friend!

[Diane Meers]

My favourite book as a little girl was Milly Molly Mandy. It was my Muvvers book from when she was a little girl so it was probably published around 1930. We have serched every but it appears to be lost now. It made such an impression on me that I have traveled to England twice to see the kind of villages I dreamed of as a child and live in my own cottage now. How I would love to have that book again!

[donna]

I LOVED MMM. I too would trace the route to her house, to the shop, to school, endlessly dreaming of living in her village and having her life!

[Mikki Jo]

Very sweet memories. I enjoyed my visit, and look forward to coming back, Have a great day!

[Wendy]

I LOVED Milly Molly Mandy, I used to always love copying the pictures and re-drawing the map!

Love your blog.

[Alison]

Your post has brought back a wheelbarrow load of happy memories. I LOVED Milly Molly Mandy. Do you remember the song?

[Daisy Cottage]

I loved this post, have never seen these books before but they look wonderful! Thank you for sharing with us!
xo,
Kim

[carolyn]

What a wonderful gift your Mother bought you.

[Violette]

It is a lovely story.
I like your blog very much !

Have a nice week !

[Helen]

What memories. I loved Milly Molly Mandy as a child and Enid Blyton, Grimm's and Anderson's Fairy Tales,What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next etc.,etc.,etc.I could go on forever.

[Amy]

Oh! I can't believe others out there like Milly Molly Mandy! I still have my books I read when I was growing up about her - she was and still is one of my favourites :-)

[Clare]

Hi Fiona, It's wonderful how our favourite childhood characters can shape our lives isn't it? I did a post recently about my favourite childhood people! I grew up in the country and still live there - I think as I get older I appreciate it even more!

[Nicky Fraser]

Im really surprised that Milly Molly Mandy passed me by when I was a child. However, I'm hastily making up for lost time with my daughters... we love her, and Susan. Fantastic.

[Sue]

She was my favourite, too. And I'm sure I was her little friend Susan!! Those were the days ... Sue

[Jennifer]

I have no connection to the company, but I can happily report that http://www.chinaberry.com/index.cfm carries Milly Molly Mandy books (and a lot of other great children's books as well). here's to the way our lives are formed and changed by the things we read (whatever our age)!

[Racheal]

Oh, when you find that little village please please tell me and I will come too.

Racheal xx

[Beachy]

I've never seen those books, but they look absolutely charming! I love the old graphics, and the story sounds precious!

[Lynn]

I could have written this post myself as it says exactly how I adored MMM!!
As a child I aspired to be MMM and now I am older and a mother I aspire to be like MMM's mum!!
Happy Days!
Lynn

[Jo]

I loved MMM too, I still have my old books upstairs, a bit dog eared now. I also loved the Swallows and Amazons books too for similar reasons, super illustations, maps and they had great adventures.

[niki]

Oh to be that innocent again!....I enjoyed 'My Naughty Little Sister Books'! I was not a naughty child, but it felt good to read about one! hehe!

[Monique]

Ah, days gone by !!! What a lovely book and such cute drawings. I long for such a life too. I wish this could be real. No more harshness and violence, just plain and simple country life, with lots of love and understanding for eachother.......I can dream can't I ; )

[nel]

What a gorgeous book for you to have...MMM is so old fashioned and gorgeous...Nel xo

[lazylol]

MMM was my childhood favourite too!! I still have a couple of old books and a big modern colourful one too.

[Zabrina]

I don't know Molly, but the illustrations are fabulous!

[Barbara]

What nostalagia. Thank you. Mill Molly Mandy was my favourite as a child. I wanted to be like her.