#milly molly mandy

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Happy new year everyone!!!!

[m0ose-idiot]

In which Milly-Molly-Mandy's second best friend is the Captain 🏃‍♂️

[meowizard]

liberal milly molly mandy be like

milly molly WOMANdy

billy BLUNT

little friend SUSan

mother & MOTHER

grandpa & GRANDPA

[swordfaery]

eating blackberries that are growing on private property bcis i learnt nothing from milly molly mandy

[bubblesandpages]

17, 19, and 3? 👀🍵

3. what is your favorite genre?

Fantasssssy my beloved <3

17. top 5 children’s books?

GLAD YOU ASKED and is also an evil question limiting me to five :p

For the sake of my heart I'm limiting this to children's chapter books because this list would be impossible if we were to include picture books. Nostalgia will also have a significant say as I've read more than a few excellent children's books in my adult life that, good as they are, don't quite manage the same level of blind adoration as some of these earlier ones do, even if they match them in every other regard.

The Wind in the Willows: immediately disregarding rule two, I didn't actually like this book as a kid, though the fact we had an abridged copy growing up might have had something to do with that. This book is made up entirely of charm, and perfectly nails it's atmosphere. The fact that this isn't a cottagecore classic is beyond ridiculous >:(

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane: this is probably the closest you can get to fictional book that made me the person I am. There is something so poignant and deeply, deeply touching about this book and how it depicts loss and tragedy, and the hope and perseverance that makes life worth living.

Lara and the Gray Mare: I know I never shut up about her, but she means so much to me. This series more than any other showed me how much I care about women in history being women in history. Yes, it's has a Mulan spin to it, but it takes so much of its time honoring and respecting the roles women had in society, giving their actions weight and importance, and allowing them to achieve self-actualization through the myriad of ways they contributed to society. I adore it, and thinking about it makes me ticked off with how narrowly feminism set's the parameters for female success at times in favor of more mescaline achievements.

Dragonskin Slippers: this was quite possibly my introduction to tongue-in-cheek fantasy parody while being unabashedly girly! There's adorable, thoughtful, and terrifying dragons who love summer fruits and collect dogs, and stained glass windows, an abundance of embroidery, evil princesses, non-evil counts, decidedly practical heroines, and absurd aunts who've read too many fairytales! This book is pure comfort and joy to me <3

The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: this comes the closest out of any book I've read to capturing the pure dreamlike vagueness of fairytales. May Gibbs often gets compared to Beatrix Potter, but I'd say that Potter has a more grounded realism to her work, while Gibbs feels like an unfinished sentence. Events in her stories happen, and you get the sense they work especially on an emotional level, but events will take place with little clarification or explanation—hence the fairytale quality.

19. most disliked popular books?

(Kids and preteens look away; this isn't intended for you) Keeper of the Lost Cities is bad actually, I'm going to need all the adults to relearn what a good children's book is. Go read a Newbery or ten, because this isn't it.

Murderbot Diaries is really, really not my cup of tea. Pardon me for not finding an android reenacting me as my worst self somehow relatable or comforting to read about. Nobody in this first novella gets any good solid characterization,other than Murderbot and the captain, there's a bajillion people on this crew yet all I know about them is which other person in the team they'd like to sleep with, which, for a self-professed skipper of sex scenes seems like the least likely thing for our protagonist to zero in on, or perhaps there's a larger point here about how coupling is all that human's think about. Anyway, don't like it.

[squidresearchlabs]

may i request npts based on being a mad scientist who's also a cute girl? tysm!!

ooh i love this !!

names

cell , marrow , enoxaparin , molly , medusa , marina , toxin , hazard , lobotelle , plasticulla , lymphoid , foggy , patchy , elara , jupiter , lumen , ester , staurozoa , mandible/mandi , neuralgia , positron , posy , spore , pathogenica , gamma , violet , millie , clumselle , hatchet , comet , opaque , pearl , decora , gorgon

pronouns

bone/bones , x-ray/x-rays , needle/needles , spill/spills , mask/masks , elec/electric , zip/zaps , tissue/tissues , patch/patches , mutate/mutates , mutant/mutants , radio/radiographs , rad/radiations , sick/sickness , poi/poisons , magnet/magnets , oops/whoops , cute/cutes , beam/beams

titles

(prn) who puts glitter in (prns) concoctions , the one in the hypno-glasses , (prn) who performs biopsies , (prn) who creates monstrosities , the cackling one , (prn) who is wicked , the dizzying one , (name) and (prns) favorite experiment , the one with the sparkly needle , the one who coughs up blood/other , (prn) who has specific favorite moons , the radiologist , (prn) who is a parasite , (prn) who created new illnesses , the world's favorite scientist , the one with the pink slime monsters , (prn) who calls (prns) creations (prns) children , the one covered in glitters and sparkles

i had so much fun with this ... a lot of these are cytology based im sorry if you wanted a different field as a focus ! still , i hope these are good !! thank you for requesting !!

[gothwizardmagic]

it doesnt count if reading the poll got the song stuck in your head it had to already be there!!!!!

[28dayslater]

Millie bright defending like millie molly mandy

[eenadu-varthalu]

Ram: Bheem ‘M?’

Bheem: Oh!? Mountain! Moccasin! Magma!

Sita: What’s happening?

Jenny: Bheem’s trying to learn the phonetic alphabet. He favors the “spot-check” method of revision. None of the above Bheem, no.

Bheem: Uh, molecule? Mongoose! Mosquito!?

Ram: Shorter

Bheem: Mosque!

Jenny: it’s a name.

Bheem: Malli! Martin? Maggie? Milly - Molly - Mandy - Matthew - Michael!???

Jenny: Nearly! Shorter

Bheem: Mickey! Mick! Mih! Muh?!

Ram: No Bheem! the phonetic alphabet version of the letter “m” is not “Muh.” ITS MIKE.

Bheem: Ugh, I was close tho!

Ram: In comparison to “molecule” and “Milly - Molly - Mandy”, YES!

Cabin Pressure x RRR

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[worldsnest]

The Village, from the series Milly Molly Mandy, author: Suddenly Saoirse, based on the original book map

[cithaerons]

i think my parents (& my teachers & myself) exposed me to so much old timey books & other content that my understanding of the world reached to about 1928, when my milly molly mandy collection was published, and no later.

[meowizard]

actually know what I'm so considering making milly molly mandy and co my new header

[dotsayers]

1, 6, 11, 17, 19 and a ~question of your choice~ for the book asks 😘

book you’ve reread the most times?

oh you know it's the gruffalo by julia donaldson and axel schaffer. as a primary school teacher it is an all timer and i can recite parts of it from memory even though i had never read it until maybe five years ago.

come to think of it, we're going on a bear hunt by michael rosen is probably close as well. and as for novels it's either the thieves of ostia by caroline lawrence or... maybe lola rose by jacqueline wilson? as an adult things rarely pass three or four rereads for me, and those were easily in the double digits.

6. what books have you read in the last month?

NOT MANY. i have committed the crime of being busy and ill but i have managed the goblin emperor (a perennial comfort read), a thin ghost and others by m.r. james, "dracula" (i finished dracula daily okay), and black roses by simon armitage. my currently reading is much longer and includes about a third of h is for hawk, which is excellent but VERY heavy going.

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?

i do like non-fiction books but usually lean towards history and nature writing rather than popular science and contemporary stuff. notable exception is fermat's last theorem by simon singh, which i picked up on a whim at a fair book stall and ended up absolutely devouring. very accessible history of a fascinating mystery with a satisfying ending. history wise i've moved from reading mostly around world war one towards reading a lot about early medieval britain. i also fucking love a book called 'under another sky: journeys in roman britain' which is a travelogue about roman ruins around the country that i have read two and a half times.

17. top 5 children’s books?

i am going to cheat and do 5 picture books and 5 "chapter" books because otherwise i will combust. and again in no particular order!

the giant jam sandwich by john vernon lord and janet burroway

don't let the pigeon drive the bus! by mo willems

funnybones by allan and janet ahlberg

hoot owl master of disguise by sean taylor

the gruffalo by julia donaldson

limiting chapter books to ones i actually read as a child just to make it even harder for myself

the wee free men by terry pratchett

matilda by roald dahl

the roman mysteries series by caroline lawrence (FORMATIVE)

narnia but specifically dawn treader/the silver chair by c.s. lewis (elite duo)

milly molly mandy by joyce lankester brisley

19. already answered!

and for my own choice...

8. what is the first book you remember reading?

according to my mum i was reading narnia before i have concrete memories of existence and while i do not doubt my mum the first memory i have of reading anything is of sitting around a table outside my reception classroom reading an oxford reading tree book with no words, just coming up with our own to explain what was happening

the searchlights model of reading >>>>>

[mtvunplugged1996]

Thank you to the lovely @localfruitt for tagging me!

Comfort film: Pride and Prejudice (1995)... It's technically a TV series, but it's what I watch if I'm out of sorts :)

Comfort food: Bread!

Comfort clothing: My nightgown...?

Comfort song: Serenade in B-flat major, K. 361, III. Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Yes, really.

Comfort book: Anything with charming illustrations. Brambly Hedge is a favorite of mine, as well as Milly-Molly-Mandy.

Comfort games: I don't play video games! :')

Tagging @sneez @boudicca @nizynskis @jacarandatree and @ladyoftheharbour :)

[wrapped-up]

Hello! 1, 10, 20? x

Hullo!

1. book you’ve reread the most times?

As a child, Milly Molly Mandy. As an adult, probably Prisoner of Azkaban.

10. do you have a guilty fav?

I mean, I'm a bit guilty about my HP addiction. Especially as J*R was someone I looked up to a lot when I was younger. The whole thing makes me sad and

But on a brighter note, my absolute guilty faves are the Georgia Nicolson books by the late, great Louise Rennison. Honestly, they are laugh out loud funny books written for tween girls, and there is nothing better. I grew up on them and they have probably influenced me more than any other books even though because they're silly and very un-literary.

20. what are things you look for in a book?

I have a very short attention span so I can't usually deal with too much description with not enough action/dialogue. I'd gone off reading for a bit but I've realised now it's because I was trying to read very high brow stuff which was beautifully written but bored my little socks off.