My Naughty Little Sister: A Treasury Collection

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Edwards' most famous stories are of My Naughty Little Sister, which she conceived to keep her daughter, Jane, quiet whilst on a family holiday in 1950. She wrote five books of these stories, which were illustrated by Shirley Hughes. [1] [6] She wrote several other children's story books and picture books. She was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for children's literature for The Witches and the Grinnygog 1981, a novel for children about the survival of benign pagan witchcraft in modern Britain. This novel was later adapted for television. [9] Selected books [ edit ]

Her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and at this time she married her husband Francis P. "Frank" Edwards in 1942, [3] and had two children, Jane and Frank. She died in 1982 and was buried alongside her younger sister Phyllis Mary F. Brown, known as "Pip", (1920–1977), [4] [5] to whom her Naughty Little Sister books were dedicated. [1] [6] She was survived by her husband, who died two years later. [7] Works [ edit ] Publications [ edit ]Yeah, we were definitely the naughty ones. In one of my favourite stories, at a birthday party, My Naughty Little Sister and her best friend, Bad Harry, sneak away from the other children to have a look at a delicious trifle decorated with sweets. Alfie starred in many subsequent stories, along with his little sister Annie Rose, including An Evening at Alfie’s, Alfie Gives a Hand and Alfie Wins a Prize. Their simple childhood adventures, set in a British urban world of birthday parties, park visits and local fairs, were fittingly modernised over the years and continued to delight generations of children and their parents, with the most recent book in the series, Alfie on Holiday, published in 2019. Now, the thing is, she's not trying to be deliberately bad, she just wants to have a bit of fun. And we all know how that feels, don't we? I used to read these stories, almost every night. It's probably one of my favourite books from when I was younger. The stories are told by an older sister, and I like the funny way they show the new responsibility of having a younger sister, because even though we all love our younger brother and sisters, we all know they can be a real pain sometimes too. I have two sisters, one twin sister and one 11-year-old sister. The 11-year-old's quite sensible, quite well-behaved, but I think me and the twin were the naughty ones.

Dorothy Violet Ellen Edwards (née Brown; 6 November 1914 – 8 August 1982) was a children's writer from England best known for her My Naughty Little Sister book series and novel The Witches and the Grinnygog (1981). Much later, she wrote fiction: The Lion and the Unicorn (2000), a short novel with many illustrations for six- to eight-year-olds, and two wartime adventures, Hero on a Bicycle (2012) and Whistling in the Dark (2016). In 2012 she published Dixie O’Day: In The Fast Lane!, the first in an illustrated series created jointly with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy. For her last book, written at the age of 92, she returned to the story of the lost toy dog with a seasonal sequel, Dogger’s Christmas, published in 2020. Ed. Dinah Birch, The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.), 2009. ISBN 9780191735066. "Edwards, Dorothy (1914–1982)" If you were to share a story about your own sibling, what funny adventure would you tell about them? So they dug away into the spongy inside of the trifle and found lots of nice fruit bits inside. It was a very big trifle, but those greedy children ate and ate. Then, just as they had nearly finished the whole big trifle, the ring-a-rose-ing stopped and Bad Harry's mother called,Do you have a little sister or brother? What are some fun things you like to do together with them? Ring-a-ring-a-roses,' sang the good party children. 'Nice jelly sweets,' said My Naughty Little Sister. 'Nice silver balls.' And she looked at that terribly Bad Harry and he looked at her. 'Take one,' said that naughty boy, and My Naughty Little Sister did take one, she took a red jelly sweet from the top of the trifle." Looks so tasty, doesn't it? I just don't understand what's going on. But I know who'll get the blame for it. Before long, that trifle was disappearing fast, because once My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry started eating, they found they couldn't stop. There are 5 books in the series and children enjoy getting to know the cast of returning characters in each.

Apology Letter: Guide the children in writing an apology letter from the little sister to say sorry for one of the things they did in the story like trying to cut the cat’s tail off or eating the delicious trifle decorated with sweets. While the premise of many of Shirley’s books remained constant, she was innovative in the ways of telling them. A wordless picture book, Up and Up (1979), was followed by Chips and Jessie (1985), the first in a series of titles told in comic strip format as a way of helping emerging readers move from just pictures to words. Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS . Retrieved 12 June 2017. Marriages Dec 1942 Brown Dorothy V. E. Edwards Brentford 3a 752 I still love to read a lot and I think that all started because I was reading a lot of books when I was growing up. It's great when youfind a book like My Naughty Little Sister, when you read about acharacter you actually recognise. And I'm sure the more you read, you'll find a book about a character who's just like you.Born as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family, her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. 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. She then studied at the Ruskin in Oxford. According to her autobiography, A Life Drawing (2002), her application to Oxford was based on the misinformation that the city had an ice rink and she “rather fancied myself on ice”. At Ruskin, she studied life drawing, laying the foundation for so much of her later illustrations. I grew up reading the "My Naughty Little Sister" series by Dorothy Edwards. In retrospect this could have been a conscious decision made my Mum and Dad, lets just say there was MORE than a passing resemblance between the two little girls in the stories and my sister and I (No prizes for guessing which one I was!). My Naughty Little Sister goes Fishing was my favourite of the series. She was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for children's literature for The Witches and the Grinnygog 1981, a novel for children about the survival of benign pagan witchcraft in modern Britain. This novel was later adapted for television. She could create a sense of drama out of the smallest thing and resolve it without ever needing to deliver a message. Instead, she relied on children and their parents being largely sensible and so able to solve problems for themselves.