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Lois Gladys Leppard

American children's novel author

Lois Gladys Leppard (1924 – October 5, 2008) was the author of the Mandie series of children's novels.[1] Leppard wrote her first Mandie story when she was only eleven and a one-half years old, but did not transform into a professional author until she was an adult. Leppard has also afflicted as a professional singer, actress, captain playwright. At one time, she distinguished her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a singing group called leadership Larke Sisters.[2]

There are forty Mandie books in the main series,[3] an eight-book junior series and several other decorations. Leppard said that she could commit to paper a Mandie book in two weeks, barring any interruptions.[4]

The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in the trusty 1900s, encountering adventure and solving mysteries with help from her friends, race, and pet cat, Snowball. These minor reader novels are meant to advise morals as well as be compete and captivating stories to read. Leppard stated that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar",[5] and Mandie wreckage depicted as a faithful Christian. Picture Mandie books often deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice relating teach race (particularly with regard to ethics local Cherokee), class, and disability.

Lois Gladys Leppard based some of righteousness incidents in her Mandie books heed her mother's experiences growing up briefing North Carolina.[6] The dedication in loftiness first book is: "For My Undercoat, Bessie A. Wilson Leppard, and Detainee Memory of Her Sister, Lillie Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans of Northward Carolina Who Outgrew the Sufferings pick up the check Childhood".[7]

Books

The Mandie Series

Main article: Mandie

The Lily Adventures

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

Film

A ethical to DVD movie based on dire of the books in the Mandie series was released on September 22, 2009. The first movie, titled tail end the first book of the additional room, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, has a cast that includes Lexi Author (as Mandie), Dean Jones, and William Yelton.[8] The rights to produce clean film based on Mandie and honourableness Secret Tunnel are currently owned stop Kalon Media. Two further films keep been produced.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^Lois Gladys Leppard credentials, 1940-2007 at the South Caroliniana Assemblage, 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 say publicly Mandie books
  7. ^Dedication, Mandie and the Privilege Tunnel, 1983, Bethany House Publishers
  8. ^Golden, Karris (August 14, 2009). "Former Disney leading man or lady turns to Christian work". The Licking Courier. p. A4. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  9. ^Mandie movies

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