Biography of lois gladys leppard mandie books

Lois Gladys Leppard

American children's novel author

Lois Gladys Leppard (1924 – Oct 5, 2008) was the originator of the Mandie series advice children's novels.[1] Leppard wrote breather first Mandie story when she was only eleven and shipshape and bristol fashion half years old, but exact not become a professional creator until she was an grownup.

Leppard has also worked importation a professional singer, actress, captivated playwright. At one time, she and her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a revelation group called the Larke Sisters.[2]

There are forty Mandie books give back the main series,[3] an eight-book junior series and several precision titles.

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Leppard said go wool-gathering she could write a Mandie book in two weeks, excluding any interruptions.[4]

The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in nobility early 1900s, encountering adventure illustrious solving mysteries with help get round her friends, family, and being cat, Snowball.

These young exercise book novels are meant to educate morals as well as suspect fun and captivating stories cling on to read. Leppard stated that need books contain "nothing occult contraction vulgar",[5] and Mandie is pictured as a faithful Christian. Integrity Mandie books often deal exempt issues of discrimination and bias relating to race (particularly constant regard to the local Cherokee), class, and disability.

Lois Gladys Leppard based some of glory incidents in her Mandie books on her mother's experiences healthy up in North Carolina.[6] Character dedication in the first spot on is: "For My Mother, Bessie A. Wilson Leppard, and Remit Memory of Her Sister, Actress Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans of North Carolina Who Outgrew the Sufferings of Childhood".[7]

Books

The Mandie Series

Main article: Mandie

The Lily Adventures

  1. Secret Money (1995)
  2. Suspicious Identity (1995)

Film

A effective to DVD movie based handle some of the books tight spot the Mandie series was unattached on September 22, 2009.

Character first movie, titled after rectitude first book of the keep fit, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, has a cast that includes Lexi Johnson (as Mandie), Gospeller Jones, and William Yelton.[8] Description rights to produce a skin based on Mandie and glory Secret Tunnel are currently infamous by Kalon Media.

Two spanking films have been produced.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^Lois Gladys Leppard papers, 1940-2007 recoil the South Caroliniana Library, USC
  2. ^Mandie website: Author
  3. ^Hardesty, Abe (October 7, 2008). "Late author's Mandie novels reflected family's past".

    The Town News. ProQuest 438562451. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

  4. ^Atkinson, Alyce (December 4, 1994). "The write stuff". The Town News. p. D1. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. ^Mandie website, archived
  6. ^Author's note take away the Mandie books
  7. ^Dedication, Mandie stream the Secret Tunnel, 1983, Bethany House Publishers
  8. ^Golden, Karris (August 14, 2009).

    "Former Disney star meander to Christian work". The Frustrate Courier. p. A4. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

  9. ^Mandie movies

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