My Naughty Little Sister

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This complete book felt like a sister complaining about her lil sister and also adoring her at the same time.

I wonder if many small children feel like this about the furtive arrival in their bedrooms of a bearded stranger in a tatty red coat and furs?Edwards helped to devise the radio show Listen with Mother on which her Naughty Little Sister books were broadcast from 1950, [8] and she also wrote for Playschool and Jackanory. In 1999 she was awarded an OBE for services to children\'s literature and in 2000 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. It’s old fashioned enough that the father is asked to “mind” his daughter which frustrates me a bit. Shirley Hughes CBE is a highly-respected and popular British author and illustrator, having written over 70 books and illustrated over 200. It's a very clever device because any child listening to or reading the stories is directly addressed and immediately given the status of the Wise and Good themselves.

Hughes is a legendary artist best-known for her pictures of everyday life in all its happy mayhem and warmth.Naughty is a word which is, today, thankfully used only to describe behaviour and not individual children. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and at this time she married her husband Frank Edwards and had two children, Jane and Frank. I am being to think the author of the 1001 children's books you must read before you grew up did in fact not read any of these or maybe doesn't know child development. Working in a tight shift duty as a nurse and getting stuck between the deadlines for reviews by the organizers, reviewing books had became a bit overwhelming for me as me being a mood reader. Written in the first person, the narrator takes on the persona of the wise older sibling commenting with benign superiority on the mischief making and scrapes of her lovable little sister.