My Naughty Little Sister

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Do you have a little sister or brother? What are some fun things you like to do together with them? In addition to her own work, Shirley battled hard for the cause of illustrators and authors, serving on the management committees of the Society of Authors, Public Lending Right and the Library and Information Services Council.

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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. 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. My Own Naughty Adventures: Encourage the children to write about a time when they were a little bit naughty but in a playful and harmless way. They can describe the situation, what happened and how they felt during and after.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, They took a spoon each and scraped off the creamy stuff and ate it. And then they began to eat the nice, spongy inside. Bad Harry said, 'Now we've made the trifle look so untidy, no-one else will want any, so we may as well eat it all up.' Step Into My Shoes: The big sister tells the stories. Rewrite them from the little sister's point of view, explaining her actions. How does seeing things from a different angle help us understand why people act the way they do?

My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards - Waterstones My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards - Waterstones

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. 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. 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.Have you read any books where the main character is a bit mischievous? What happened in those stories? 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. If you were to share a story about your own sibling, what funny adventure would you tell about them?

My Naughty Little Sister: A Treasury Collection - Waterstones My Naughty Little Sister: A Treasury Collection - Waterstones

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. 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. 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. And then, before you know it, you're off having an adventure, just like My Naughty Little Sister. And who knows where that'll take you?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.