And what kind of world they wanted to live in. In late-night sessions at Thomas' apartment, they talked about what kind of songs and poems and stories they wanted to tell. She gathered celebrities like playwright Herb Gardner, actor Mel Brooks, poet Shel Silverstein, Academy Award-winning playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ed Kleban. She used her connections to realize this vision. Thomas had grown up in a show business family and was fresh off a successful run in the sitcom That Girl. International bestseller Jill Mansell crafts a deliciously romantic story about love, loss and secrets that just can't be kept Nothing stays secret forever, least of all love On the morning of her twenty-fifth birthday, Lily Harper opens the very last letter written to her by her beloved mother, who died when she was eight. And that's when I decided that I wanted to create a project for children that said that they were free to be anything they wanted to be.' What would you like to have heard as a kid? 'The prince is gonna come along and kiss her and the whole world's gonna be OK? I mean, it took us years to get over that. You and Me, Always takes place in the idyllic village of Stanton Langley in the Cotswolds, and Jill Mansell has done a fabulous job of creating a charming setting with an endearing community. Im getting ready to send this song to my brother and I know he is going to smile or cry or maybe both because were. 'I said to my sister, these books are so old fashioned,' remembers Thomas. I will always remember and love this song. Actor Marlo Thomas discovered that reading a bedtime story to her 5-year-old niece. But 1972, that wasn't the message kids were getting.

And it always you and me