{"id":141630,"date":"2025-10-24T00:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141630\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:17:23","slug":"julie-andrews-and-her-daughter-emma-walton-hamilton-share-their-six-favorite-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141630\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton share their six favorite books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever wonder what your favorite celebrities are reading \u2014 whether it\u2019s a timeless classic or the buzzy bestseller they can\u2019t put down? Welcome to Page-Turners, where stars reveal the books that keep them hooked, inspired and up all night. Warning: your TBR pile is about to get a lot longer.<\/p>\n

Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton have been inspired by books and reading since they were children. <\/p>\n

As the \u201cMary Poppins\u201d actress and Hamilton celebrate their new book, \u201cThe Great American Mousical\u201d<\/a> \u2014 which is out now \u2014 they\u2019re looking back on the stories that have stuck with them over the years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ll read almost anything that catches my fancy,\u201d Andrews tells Page Six, adding that she can enjoy a reading session anywhere, \u201cFrom my garden to my bed, an airplane, or an armchair.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBooks are in every room of my house,\u201d Hamilton tells us. \u201cThey are my friends, my advisors, my constant companions.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Andrews\u2019 favorite autobiography to the memoir that Hamilton returns to over and over again, see below for the six books that shaped their lives. <\/p>\n

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\u201cMy father bought me this lovely book when I was about 9 years old. It is a beautifully written nature study focusing on the last four gnomes living in Britain. This book has influenced my own writing ever since I first read it, and I was proud to help republish it in the States several years ago.\u201d \u2014 Julie Andrews<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018The Golden Compass\u2019 by Philip Pullman is possibly my favorite book of all time. It\u2019s magnificently written, and manages to be both a gripping adventure and a meditation on the nature of the soul at the same time.\u201d \u2014 Emma Walton Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018The Once and Future King\u2019 is a huge book \u2014 four novels in all \u2014 under one cover. It is a retelling of the Arthurian legends originally written by Thomas Malory in 1485. Terence Hanbury White transcribed those books for modern readers, and it eventually became the basis for the lovely musical\u00a0\u2018Camelot\u2019\u00a0by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which I was so fortunate to be part of in my youth.\u201d \u2014 Julie Andrews<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018The Phantom Tollbooth\u2019 by Norton Juster was the book that made me fall in love with reading as a child. The idea of a word market, where words have flavor and scent and texture, so captured my imagination that I think it\u2019s why I\u2019m a writer today.\u201d \u2014 Emma Walton Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Act One\u2019\u00a0is the wonderful autobiography of the famous writer\/director Moss Hart. It is about his early life as he struggled through extreme poverty to eventually become the beloved, prominent man that he was. In my view, it captures an era and the world of musical theater in an unparalleled way.\u201d \u2014 Julie Andrews<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Big Magic\u2019 by Elizabeth Gilbert is a book I turn to again and again in my adult writing life. It reminds me of and re-roots me in the mystery and wonder that is the creative process.\u201d \u2014 Emma Walton Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Page Six may receive compensation or an affiliate commission if you click on or make a purchase through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[20129,359,18,117,19,17,83854,56451,23143,11997,797],"class_list":{"0":"post-141630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-authors","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-julie-andrews","15":"tag-page-six-style","16":"tag-page-turners","17":"tag-parents","18":"tag-shopping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115426273248687979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}