My Naughty Little Sister

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We're all a bit naughty sometimes, aren't we? You should meet this girl. She's called My Naughty Little Sister. England - KS1/KS2 English: Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read. 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."

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Shirley Hughes, who has died aged 94, was an award-winning author of more than 50 children’s books, and illustrator of some 200 more, with worldwide sales of more than 11m. She had an exceptional talent for drawing children. Through her warm-hearted observation, particularly of pre-school children, she created a distinctive and affectionate visual image of childhood that has been instantly recognisable for more than 60 years. 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. 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, Shirley’s ability to draw children was spotted by a children’s books editor while she was still a student at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford. Initially, she mainly illustrated other people’s stories, starting with Noel Streatfeild’s The Bell Family in 1954, and including most notably Dorothy Edwards’s My Naughty Little Sister books when they were republished in the late 1960s. She also illustrated books by Alison Uttley, Ian Serraillier and Margaret Mahy.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. Her exceptional contribution to children’s books was widely recognised, with awards for individual titles including the Children’s Rights Workshop Other award, a prize that celebrated diversity in children’s books, for Helpers (1975); and a second Kate Greenaway medal, for Ella’s Big Chance (2003). She received the Eleanor Farjeon award for services to children’s literature in 1984, and was the first winner of the BookTrust lifetime achievement award, in 2015. She was appointed OBE in 1999 and CBE in 2017. 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. 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.

My Naughty Little Sister Collection (5 Books Box Set)

Actress Aimee Kelly reads extracts from 'My Naughty Little Sister' by Dorothy Edwards (illustrated by Shirley Hughes), explaining why she loves the book, how it captured her imagination as a child, and why she loves to read. If you were to share a story about your own sibling, what funny adventure would you tell about them? My Naughty Little Sister is the number one expert at getting into trouble, and this is a whole book of stories all about her. She could be at the funfair, in the garden, fishing, or even at the dentist. But wherever she is, she's usually making mischief, making a mess or causing chaos, usually at the same time. Shirley was just the person that those who loved her illustrations would expect her to be. Usually in a hat, she was effortlessly elegant and graceful, and wonderful company: funny, insightful and kind with a laugh that was both loud and heartfelt. In 1952 she married John Vulliamy; he died in 2007. She is survived by their three children, Ed, a journalist, Clara, an author and illustrator, and Tom, a research scientist.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. 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. We watch as Aimee discusses the naughty lead character's fun antics with Bad Harry and finds out whether it's better to be naughty or nice. Wales - Progression Step 2/3 Languages, Literacy and Communication: Literature fires imagination and inspires creativity. Northern, Ireland - KS1/KS2 Language and Literacy: Extend the range of their reading and develop their own preferences.