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Original Title:	The Mennyms ISBN13 8324102116
Edition Language:	Polish
Series:	Mennyms #1
Literary Awards:	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (1996), Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1994), Zilveren Zoen (1997), Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser for Kinderbuch (2000)

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I recently recommended this book to a friend, a very sensitive friend, a Gilbert & Sulliven listening light poetry reading friend who does not want to deal with anything that makes him squeamish (one of his favorite words, which compels me to carefully poke his sensitive spots during our conversations to see exactly what he considers "squeamish"). He's always asking what I'm reading, and I say "I'm reading _____ and it's great but it'll make you squeamish. DO NOT GO NEAR IT." I don't even bring up Dennis Cooper with him...

I admit to getting some light kicks from poking his sensitive spots, but I also pride myself on diagnosing my friends’ reading deficiencies and prescribing just the right book for what ails them. So a few months ago I suggested he read The Mennyms, which is the first of five YA books chronicling the lives of a family of animate rag dolls. I had no doubts it would rock his sensitive skiff and fulfill all his non-squeamish needs. And it did! though he couldn’t believe he was reading and actually caring about a family of rag dolls.

Me? I’ve read all five books in the series twice. I read it the second time after buying a house because I wanted to read it in our new dwelling so that my reading experience would infiltrate the house’s atmosphere. Yes, that’s a weird notion, but I can’t be the only one here who knows what I’m talking about…

The premise? Three generations of rag dolls have lived for forty years in a house owned by a distant landlord. During those forty years they have had no direct contact with the outer world (though one doll has worked for years as a graveyard shift security guard), living in what was essentially domestic bliss; though, as it turns out, some of the younger dolls would beg to differ. But those forty years are not directly covered in the books, rather we meet them in media res as book one opens with the receipt of a letter from the heir of the recently deceased landlord saying that he is traveling to England to see them. This makes them all aflutter and the plot proceeds from there - through five books of vicissitudes and familial problems; through seeming death and reanimation; through sacrificial bonfires (squeamish!); through live rag dolls having to pretend they're inanimate rag dolls; and finally through the purchase of a new house that restores their previous domestic order and social invisibility, and presumably 40+ more years of homely bliss (with inevitable interior dramas).

All five books are fantastic. They are droll and wise and slightly satirical and even delve into metaphysical issues and fundamental notions of what it means to exist, all with the lightest of touches.

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Title	:	Mennymsowie (Mennyms #1)
Author	:	Sylvia Waugh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 206 pages
Published	:	2002 by Amber (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Childrens. Young Adult. Juvenile. Family. European Literature. British Literature

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I've always loved this book, and still do. I love the world created by Waugh, which is so realistic I never once don't believe the dolls are alive. She doesn't over analyse or try to scientifically or magically explain how they became sentient, which I appreciate (willful suspension of disbelief and all that...) Highly recommend.

3.5 STARSI was expecting a little more from this story considering the reviews. Im not exactly sure what I mean by more, but I feel as though I missed out on the magic of the Mennyms 🙁. I imagine as time passes their familys tale of trying to live life with its complicated mix of pretends and realities may grow on me. Does anyone else ever have that problem where a story becomes better than the initial reading after youve had time to ruminate over it a while? The plot was very character driven,

A children's fantasy involving a three-generation family of rag dolls who have been created some forty years before. The characters are believable enough, unfortunately, they are just not very endearing or even likable. Instead they are self-centered and for the most part surly with one another. Of course I'm sure I would be snippy too if I had experienced adolescent hormones for that long and could only PRETEND to eat and drink! My favorite part: Soobie, the teen brother ventures out to find

I think this book explains postcolonial Britain pretty cogently. Forced to turn back to methods of domestic production, a family of dolls stands in as an allegory for the British who are concerned that their methods of enchantment will fail without their history of empire. Furthermore, the landlord, visiting from the former penal colony (now a post world-war melting pot) threatens to hold the old mother country economically responsible for debts incurred on its former colonies. Where's the line

The Mennyms are a family of dolls who have come to life. The family consists of grandparents, parents, five children, and a friend--and, later, another child. It's a book about family relations and the problems of being a doll--you can't go out in public because of your button eyes or blue skin; you can't eat or drink. I didn't like the way the family members treated each other. They really didn't seem to love each other, and the teenage girl was allowed to be a real brat. But it's a cute little

Life sized dolls try to live a normal life in a world filled with humans.

Not even the teensiest bit creepy (way more akin to The Doll People than a haunted doll type of story) but this book and the family have a lot of charm. Not sure if I'm interested in continuing the series, though.