Millicent Margaret Amanda is the protagonist of a British series of children's books published from 1928 to 1967. She's a little girl living in a nice village cottage with her extended family. Everyone, herself included, calls her Milly-Molly-Mandy because of her Overly Long Name. Throughout the six books, she grows up from toddler to eight-year-old.
It was written by Joyce Lankester Brisley.
It provides examples of:
- Doomed New Clothes: In "Milly-Molly-Mandy has a Clean Frock" Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friend Billy Blunt, wearing newly-washed clothes, go to look for tadpoles in a nearby pond. They both fall in and end up Covered in Mud.
- Limited Wardrobe: In "Milly-Molly-Mandy has a New Dress", Milly-Molly-Mandy wants to exchange her pink-and-white striped dress for a new dress with flowers on it, but meets a girl named Bunchy who only wears flowery dresses and decides Bunchy should have it instead. Lampshaded by little-friend-Susan: "If Milly-Molly-Mandy didn't wear her pink-and-white stripes people might not know her at once. And that would be a pity!"
- Overly Long Name: The Title Character is named Millicent Margaret Amanda, but her family thought that was too long a name to say every time they wanted her. The abbreviated version is still quite long.
- Second Prize: Milly-Molly-Mandy has her heart set on a toy rabbit that is one of the prizes in a competition. She tries so hard that she wins —then discovers that the rabbit was the booby prize. She gets the rabbit in the end by swapping her prize with the loser.
- Slice of Life: Milly-Molly-Mandy's adventures revolve around the day ongoings of a village —picnicking, attending school, running errands, interacting with her extended family, fishing, and exploring the woods.
