"The Mennyms" a children's novel by Sylvia Waugh

"The Mennyms" a children's novel by Sylvia Waugh




I read this book in 1996, this is the first in a series of four books.



At Number 5 Brocklehurst Grove live the Mennyms family, a rather large family with 5 children, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and Miss Quigley. At first glance, a typically normal family, but not so, as the Mennyms and Miss Quigley are life size dolls that have had the breath of life given them - they never age nor eat. Their existence has never been questioned by any of the neighbors because they keep to themselves, but now their very existence is likely to be exposed when a letter arrives from an Albert Pond of Australia. What will happen?



This series of books was enjoyable, but now with so many digital devices, one wonders if children would still see the wonder of such a tale.