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who wrote the books 'my naughty little sister'

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misdee · 15/09/2005 23:04

remember them being read to us at school by one oif the teachers who loved thebooks. want to get one to read to dd1.

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Enid · 16/09/2005 09:46

The first one is definitely the best

and can I also recommend, for girls that are entranced by the naughtiness factor, the Amelia Jane stories and Pippi Longstocking (slightly older girls - dd1's heroine)

Marina · 16/09/2005 09:44

Thanks goodness for that Hula I thought I was going mental. I must have been mulling this over at the same time as misdee because I found them yesterday.
Despite being a Dalek fiend ds still adores Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf (they really loved their non-PC terminology in the 60s and 70s didn't they), so he is not too brainwashed into only reading "boys' fiction".

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misdee · 16/09/2005 09:43

on ebay last nigt i got my naughty little sister and naughty little sister and bad harry for 3pounds

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Hulababy · 16/09/2005 09:41

My Naughty Little Sister
My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry
When My Naughty Little Sister was Good
More Naughty Little ister stories

All available on Amazon for £3.99 each, new.

We have the first one and the last one on that list.

Hulababy · 16/09/2005 09:38

We also have Milly Molly Mandy. DD likes the stories but doesn't get quite as excited about them - reckon MMM isn't as naughty though; she's a biit of a good girl isn't she?

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misdee · 16/09/2005 09:37

i lvoe mrs pepperpot

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Hulababy · 16/09/2005 09:36

Yes, it was. Think that is in the purple book DD has - More NLD stories.

Marina · 16/09/2005 09:36

I found some new editions on Amazon Janh & Hula - at least I thought I did. Maybe I had better check because there is something in my shopping basket...
We are getting ds some of these for Christmas as we think it will help him to know other little boys have suffered before him.
If we are talking retro fiction we also plan to get him Milly Molly Mandy, Jennings and Mrs Pepperpot before he is swept away on a Digimon and Bionicle tide for ever...

Hausfrau · 16/09/2005 09:35

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Hulababy · 16/09/2005 09:34

Don't forget Rosy-Primrose, her doll. Given to her from Father Christmas, even though she was mean to him and hit him. Loved but ragged

Oh and the first story - she goes fishing with the bigger children, and goes in the water fully dressed. And it is the big children who get into trouble for it in the end

Mr Blakey is the shoe mender man.

Mrs Cocoa Jones makes them their jumpers, and teaches my Naughty Little Sister to knit.

Hulababy · 16/09/2005 09:29

We have a couple of these books now. really want them on audio CD for the car too, as 3yo DD loves them so much. Only available of cassette at moment though DD adores them - they appeal to her own naughty side I guess We have to read one of the stories most nights for her bedtime story.

You can buy them all over - Asda, WHSmith, Waterstones, etc. So far I have seen 4 different books I think.

DD likes the story when My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry eat the trifle too

Another set of books, along same lines, that she enjoys is Naughty Amelia Jane.

hoxtonchick · 16/09/2005 07:35

oh i loved these, we had some on a record too.

roisin · 16/09/2005 02:35

My boys both loved these stories!

spidermama · 15/09/2005 23:44

We love these stories.
In one she has measles and no-one bats an eyelid. Instead the kind neighbour, Mrs. CoCo Jones, brings round a box of special little bits and pieces which is reserved for ill people. It's fab!

puddle · 15/09/2005 23:40

The father looks after MNLS and goes off to work in his study. And loses her. She's down at the shoe menders IIRC.

Janh · 15/09/2005 23:39

Oh is that why MrsCocoaJones sounded so familiar!!! (It's MaloryTowers's alternate MN name )

chipmonkey · 15/09/2005 23:39

Mrs Cocoa Jones, whose husband made a little gate in the garden for MNLS to go and visit them. They had no children of their own.

lockets · 15/09/2005 23:17

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tamum · 15/09/2005 23:16

Yes, misdee, and she naughtily fell in the river and they had to leave her clothes out to dry.

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misdee · 15/09/2005 23:15

i vaguely remember one about going fishing. is that right?

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lockets · 15/09/2005 23:15

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tamum · 15/09/2005 23:15

Yes, actually you might want to edit the one where the father is forced by the evil mother to look after his own child for a couple of hours

puddle · 15/09/2005 23:14

Misdee I read them to my children but I do update the language a bit and skip some bits too. The party one is a classic though! I remember reading that when I was little, plus the one where she goes to school (the teacher agrees to look after MNLS for a whole day - how likely is that?) and where she bites father Christmas's finger.

tamum · 15/09/2005 23:13

My children alwyas loved them, still do actually. You can get audiobooks of them which are great for car rides

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misdee · 15/09/2005 23:13

am off to buy some books then.

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