Milly-Molly-Mandy’s School Days by Joyce Lankester Brisley is a set of five cosy village school stories for 5 year olds, with a strict teacher, a runaway duck and one very big puddle.<\/p>\n
Milly-Molly-Mandy walks to the little village school every day with little-friend-Susan. Billy Blunt, whose dad keeps the corn-shop, is never far away. Each story stands on its own, so it works beautifully as a story a night.<\/p>\n
In the first one, the strict new head-mistress, Miss Edwards, comes to stay at Milly-Molly-Mandy’s house for a few nights. Is there anything stranger, when you’re small, than your teacher sitting at your supper table? Milly-Molly-Mandy keeps waiting to be told to keep her elbows off the desk.<\/p>\n
Instead Teacher laughs, cuts out a whole row of paper sailor-girls and ends up with flour on her cheek learning to make apple turn-overs. It’s a lovely one for any child who’s a bit wary of a strict teacher.<\/p>\n
Then there’s Dum-Dum, a lonely drake at the Big House. Milly-Molly-Mandy cheers him up with worms after school every day. One morning he waddles into the classroom behind Billy Blunt (and the whole class is out of their seats laughing).<\/p>\n
The other three are just as homely. On a wet day the three friends mend a huge puddle by the school gate with bricks and a lump of old paving-stone. Billy digs up an “ancient” coin and they go hunting for buried treasure in his garden, which doesn’t turn out quite how they hope. And a snowy morning brings Billy’s new sledge and a ride to school for a little girl called Bunchy.<\/p>\n
Nothing rushes, in the best way. Billy Blunt says very little (“Huh!” covers most things), Susan squeals and Milly-Molly-Mandy wants to try everything. The school day starts with a hymn and the register, and some children walk home for their dinner.<\/p>\n
Before the first story there’s a drawing of the whole village, so your reader can trace the way from the nice white cottage to the school gate.<\/p>\n
If your reader warms to Billy Blunt’s quiet kindness, he’s back in Milly-Molly-Mandy’s Adventures. He hands over his own bus fare when Susan loses hers, and pitches his tent in the meadow for a night under the stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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