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Q: A few years back, I watched a talk show on which Julie Andrews talked about writing children's books with her daughter. She mentioned that they were working on a book about the idea that "mothers and daughters are fathers, too." Will you check to see i

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As if a mother-daughter children's book writing team weren't a charming enough concept, Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, wrote a book specifically about the mother-daughter relationship.

"Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother & Child" was published in 2007. Though there's no mention of the father analogy, this is their book dealing with that relationship.

Its jacket material reads: "Children learn much about the world from their mothers. But what about the unexpected wisdom mothers gain while parenting?"

Hamilton is Andrews' daughter from her first marriage to designer Tony Walton. To make this situation even cuter, Walton illustrated several of Andrews and Hamilton's books, including the "Dumpy the Dumptruck" series and "The Great American Mousical." (The latter book is about mice who have a theater underneath Broadway in New York and so is likely very close to the heart of Andrews, who appeared on Broadway a number of times herself, though she always worked above ground.)

Walton didn't illustrate "Thanks to You," but he may appear in it. The art in that book consists of their own family photographs (though no names are attached).

The Andrews-Hamilton team has been quite successful over the years. They've written more than 20 books together, and they shared the 2011 Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Word Album for Children" for their recording of "Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies."

 

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