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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Bunchy lives all alone with her grandmother in a cottage in the country. But Bunchy is never lonely - how can she be with all her special friends? The pastry girl, the Scribbles family, who started life on the back of an envelope, the naughty clothes-peg people who almost made Bunchy fall off the clothesline! - and of course the little wooden sailor-doll...
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Bunchy lives all alone with her grandmother in a cottage in the country. But Bunchy is never lonely - how can she be with all her special friends?
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 Jane Nissen Books