Mennyms in the Wilderness
core novel 1994 The Mennyms
Record
| First published | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.07 (487 ratings, collected 2026-10-23) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781856812092 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Mennyms, the family of life-size rag dolls, have successfully survived living on Brocklehurst Grove for forty years, carefully keeping the secret of their identity under wraps. Then they are faced with a crisis when plans are announced to build a motorway straight through their home, and the family must relocate to avoid discovery. The follow-up to Sylvia Waugh's award-winning debut, which Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called just as good as the first and maybe even better, an odd, enchanting and thoroughly satisfying fantasy.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Mennyms
- Series: The Mennyms core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sylvia Waugh
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the Greenwillow US edition. ISBN recorded is the Julia MacRae Books first edition (1994); the Greenwillow US edition is 9780688138202.
- From the series record (The Mennyms): Sylvia Waugh's five books of the living rag-doll family.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Mennyms: position 2 of 5: previous The Mennyms (1993) · next Mennyms Under Siege (1995)
Sources
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (bibliography)
- Library catalogue note (series summary)
- Publishers Weekly (edition record)
- Red Fox (publisher description, via Apple Books)
- Worlds Without End (publisher synopsis)
- Publishers Weekly (review)
- Bookroo (author page with book summaries)
- AbeBooks (Julia MacRae first edition record, with the rating platform's figures)
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