Julie andrews book biography of maya
Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Julie Andrews, the beloved award-winning actress and singer!.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Broadway.com
16 April 2008
By John Simon
Having finished reading Julie Andrews' Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, I feel there is no one in the world I'd rather meet than its author.
Rarely have I read a memoir so charming, so wittily self-critical, so magnanimous to others, so full of funny but unmalicious anecdotes, so exquisitely balancing confession with discretion—so British at its best. Whether you are interested in show business or not, I recommend—no, I implore—that you read it.
This Little Golden Book about Dame Julie Andrews—Broadway icon, film star, and author—is a great read-aloud for young children as well as their parents and.
It is called Home because, as Andrews writes, it was, apparently, the first word she uttered, and it became the thing most precious to her: home, and what goes with it, family. Home, it seems, is as much an Englishwoman's castle as an Englishman's—precarious, beleaguered, riven with animosities, but home nevertheless, preferably with a garden.
The English have been called a nation of shopkeepers, but I'd rather say gardeners