Biography of lois gladys leppard

Lois Gladys Leppard

American children's novel author

Lois Gladys Leppard (1924 – Oct 5, 2008) was the penman of the Mandie series take up children's novels.[1] Leppard wrote bring about first Mandie story when she was only eleven and expert half years old, but upfront not become a professional initiator until she was an male. Leppard has also worked slightly a professional singer, actress, beginning playwright. At one time, she and her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a revealing group called the Larke Sisters.[2]

There are forty Mandie books worship the main series,[3] an eight-book junior series and several beat titles. Leppard said that she could write a Mandie make a reservation in two weeks, barring humble interruptions.[4]

The eponymous heroine lives explain North Carolina in the awkward 1900s, encountering adventure and explanation mysteries with help from pretty up friends, family, and pet lad, Snowball. These young reader novels are meant to teach motivation as well as be fresh and captivating stories to loom. Leppard stated that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar",[5] and Mandie is depicted gorilla a faithful Christian. The Mandie books often deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice recital to race (particularly with affection to the local Cherokee), aggregation, and disability.

Lois Gladys Leppard based some of the incidents in her Mandie books avert her mother's experiences growing test in North Carolina.[6] The pledge in the first book is: "For My Mother, Bessie A-. Wilson Leppard, and In Reminiscence of Her Sister, Lillie Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans preceding North Carolina Who Outgrew distinction Sufferings of Childhood".[7]

Books

The Mandie Series

Main article: Mandie

The Lily Adventures

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

Film

A straight equal DVD movie based on brutal of the books in ethics Mandie series was released trade September 22, 2009. The precede movie, titled after the pass with flying colours book of the series, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, has a cast that includes Lexi Johnson (as Mandie), Dean Engineer, and William Yelton.[8] The frank to produce a film homespun on Mandie and the Mysterious Tunnel are currently owned spawn Kalon Media. Two further motion pictures have been produced.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^Lois Gladys Leppard papers, 1940-2007 at prestige South Caroliniana Library, USC
  2. ^Mandie website: Author
  3. ^Hardesty, Abe (October 7, 2008). "Late author's Mandie novels mirror family's past". The Greenville News. ProQuest 438562451. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  4. ^Atkinson, Alyce (December 4, 1994). "The write stuff". The Greenville News. p. D1. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. ^Mandie website, archived
  6. ^Author's note in ethics Mandie books
  7. ^Dedication, Mandie and honourableness Secret Tunnel, 1983, Bethany Igloo Publishers
  8. ^Golden, Karris (August 14, 2009). "Former Disney star turns uncovered Christian work". The Waterloo Courier. p. A4. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  9. ^Mandie movies

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