My Naughty Little Sister

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Bill is both wistful and admiring of the freedom of their childhood (as am I): My Naughty little sister is allowed to roam the local streets and visit her friends houses entirely independently from the age of 3 or 4. 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. The stories were written in the fifties and early sixties and fictionalise the pre-war childhood exploits of Dorothy Edwards and her little sister Phyllis (although neither girl's name is ever used in the books). But despite having loved these books myself, it took me a while to introduce them to Bill and Eddie. The My Naughty Little Sister books, originally published in the 1950s, are very much of their era but they are still loved for two reasons – they are short but witty stories perfect for bedtime and they hold a certain nostalgia for childhood as it actually was.

My Naughty Little Sister has charmed generations of adults and children alike thanks to Dorothy Edwards' playful stories and Shirley Hughes' beautiful illustrations. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. At the mention of her name booksellers beam, librarians wax lyrical and fellow children's authors opine that it is time she retired and gave the rest of them a chance. Shirley Hughes as ever manages to convey the sense of the childlike with a sense of time and place in her illustrations.They are discovered, my Naughty little sister runs all the way home and both she and Bad Harry are so ill in the night that they never want trifle again.

I didn’t read this to a young child, not sure if they would find it delightful, but I found it to be a slog to finish and really didn’t see much humor throughout. Hardback, 1st edition thus (previously published stories published for the first time with colored illustrations), Near Fine in a Very Good Plus DJ; slght amount of bumping to bottom corner tips of book, mylar protected DJ has small amunt of chipping to top end of DJ, some writing indentations to front panel, a nicely illustrated book, 4to.She also edited several anthologies of short stories, folklore and poetry for children, chiefly on the subjects of magic, witchcraft and ghosts.

Shirley Hughes Born in 1927, as a child Shirley Hughes was greatly inspired by visits to Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery. It's a very nostalgic read, but also timeless - small children will always be mischievous, get into scrapes, do naughty and greedy things, and probably after saying sorry, do something similar again. Todo el rato es la protagonista contando historias de cuando eran más chicas y su hermana se mandaba travesuras y trataba de salirse con la suya, y mensajes de qué bueno que el lector no es así de malo.But my naughty little sister did want to go, very much, so she said, “I will go, and when the horrid Father Christmas Man comes in, I will close my eyes. Johnny Morris reading his own very funny sories in his very funny voices was a big favourite - also Little Grey Rabbit. 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.