Best-known for creating Milly-Molly-Mandy, Joyce Lankester Brisley’s Bunchy, though equally charming, is often overlooked. The ten stories about her pre-school life with her grandmother capture the simplicity of childhood imagination and play. Feeling lonely, Bunchy makes a pastry doll to be a playmate; bringing in the clothes pegs, Bunchy realises that they can be dressed and turned into little play people. It’s simple, domestic stuff with a period feel that quaint but not off putting.
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Little Bunchy lives all alone with her grandmother in a cottage in the country. It's quite a long walk to the village and Bunchy is too young for school yet so she has no one to play with. But Bunchy is never lonely because she has her own very special friends - the pastry girl, the Scribbles family, the naughty clothes-peg people and the little wooden sailor-doll.Set in a by-gone era, here are ten stories written with warmth and affection, by the author of Milly-Molly-Mandy.
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Little Bunchy lives all alone with her grandmother in a cottage in the country. It's quite a long walk to the village and Bunchy is too young for school yet so she has no one to play with.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Bunchy and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-8 years old
Bunchy features in the following genres: Recommended Children's eBooks, Recommendations, Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Bunchy was written by Joyce Lankester Brisley and published by Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK
Bunchy has 95 pages
Yes it is part of A Puffin Book series