Molly-Molly Mandy Stories is the first of six original books in the Milly-Molly-Mandy series written by Joyce Lankester Brisley. It was published in 1928 in both paperback and hardback copies.
The book contains 13 short stories about the life of the title character and her family and friends.
Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Errands
Milly-Molly-Mandy Spends a Penny
Milly-Molly-Mandy Meets Her Great-Aunt
Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Blackberrying
Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes to a Party
Milly-Molly-Mandy Enjoys a Visit
Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Gardening
Milly-Molly-Mandy Makes a Cosy
Milly-Molly-Mandy Keeps Shop
Milly-Molly-Mandy Gives a Party
Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Visiting
Milly-Molly-Mandy Gets to Know Teacher
Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes to a Fête
Characters
Milly-Molly-Mandy.
Milly-Molly-Mandy's real name is Millicent Margaret Amanda but her family thought it too long a name to call every time they wanted her. She always wears a pink and white striped frock and sometimes a yellow hat. Milly-Molly-Mandy helps by running errands for the family. Milly-Molly-Mandy lives in a nice white cottage with a thatched roof with her large family.
Father
Father's first name is John. Father does all the gardening and grows vegetables for the whole family to eat and sell.
Mother
Mother's first name is Mary but she is called Polly in everyday use. Mother makes all the meals for the family and does all the washing.
Grandpa
Grandpa takes the vegetables to market using his pony (Twinkletoes) and cart.
Grandma
Grandma knits socks, mittens and nice warm woollies for them all. In Milly-Molly-Mandy Spends A Penny, Grandma teaches her to knit a (tea) cosy.
Uncle
Uncle's first name is Joe. Uncle keeps cows (to give them all milk) and chickens (to give them all eggs).
Aunty
Aunty sews frocks and shirts for them all and does the sweeping and dusting. Aunty's first name is Alice.
Great Aunt Margaret
Great Aunt Margaret is Grandma's sister and came to stay for a few days.
Topsy
Topsy is Milly-Molly-Mandy's black and white cat.
Toby
Toby is Milly-Molly-Mandy's small black and white terrier.
Duckling
In the story Milly-Molly-Mandy spends a penny she saves up three pennies and buys a duckling.
Little Friend Susan
Susan Moggs is Milly-Molly-Mandy's best friend. She lives with her mother and father and little sister Doris in a cottage near Milly-Molly-Mandy's.
Doris Moggs
Doris is Little Friend Susan's baby sister. Milly-Molly-Mandy helps look for a name for her and decides on Primrose but Mrs Moggs had already named her Doris. Milly-Molly-Mandy gets locked in her bedroom by accident and spends the whole day crocheting Doris a bonnet.
Billy Blunt
Billy Blunt is another friend of Milly-Molly-Mandy's. Milly-Molly-Mandy, Susan, and Billy often go around playing together. Billy Blunt lives with his mother and father who own a corn shop in the village.
Jilly
Jilly Muggins is another friend to Milly-Molly-Mandy. She lives with her Aunty, Miss Muggins, who owns a shop that sells sweets and material and other useful things that everybody in the village needs.
Bunchy
Bunchy's real name is Violet Rosemary May. In one story Milly-Molly-Mandy rips her dress while playing with Toby so Mother and Milly-Molly-Mandy go out to buy some new material. This is where they meet Bunchy also buying material for a new dress. Unfortunately, there are only two types of suitable dressmaking material: one is Milly-Molly-Mandy's pink and white stripes and the other is a pattern of daisies and forget-me-nots. Both girls want it but there is only enough for one dress, so Milly-Molly-Mandy decides Bunchy should have it because of her name and the two become friends.
Mr Rudge
Mr Rudge is a blacksmith who Milly-Molly-Mandy invited to their party and then later in the last book he gets married and Milly-Molly-Mandy and Little Friend Susan are the bridesmaids.