![]() ![]() One day Mandy finds a fantastic abandoned cottage in the woods. ![]() The matron running the establishment where Mandy lives is a decent woman. It’s about a little orphan girl in England who is sort of an Annie without a Miss Hannigan, a gutsy kid who doesn’t have a home, and at least this one isn’t in the hands of a shrew who’s running her orphanage. Naturally, once Grandpop figured that out, he bought the books. The problem turned out to be that Julie Andrews wrote it under her legal married name, Julie Edwards. Initially we all thought it strange that a book by someone as well-known as Julie Andrews wasn’t more easily located. My cousin Theresa wanted a copy, so he decided to get one for each of us, but he could not find the book anywhere. It took a long while for Grandpop to find it. ![]() My grandfather bought it for me in 1974, and reading it, at age 13, was one of the finest highlights of my whole year. That book about a child saved from the Nazis by decent farmers in Holland has been crying out to be a movie since the early 1970s and some studio somewhere is going to realize it one day and make a mint.Īnother is MANDY, written by actress Julie Andrews. I’ve written before about the non-fiction story, THE UPSTAIRS ROOM, by Johanna Reiss. ![]() It never ceases to amaze me that some of the very best books out there never seem to get made into movies. One of the many covers of MANDY by Julie Edwards (Julie Andrews). ![]()
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