My Naughty Little Sister

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She was a marvellous storyteller; funny, direct and totally unpatronising, and she established an immediate rapport. Then, when some of the teachers came round with bags of sweets, tied up in pretty coloured paper, my little sister smiled even more, and she sang too when all the children sang. She's got something in her mouth againV She would pick my sister up and say, \"Now, now, Baby, give it to Mother.

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Lucy and Tom’s Day (1960) was the first of many that drew on the everyday experiences of her own young children for the kind of simple domestic incidents that would be familiar to many. After all the singing, the teachers put out the lights, and took away a big screen from a corner of the room, and there was the Christmas tree, all lit up with candles and shining with silvery stuff, and little shiny coloured balls.She looked at the tree, and she looked at the toys, and she saw a specially nice doll with a blue dress on, and she said, \"For me. So, one morning, when Mrs Jones looked over the fence and saw my baby sister in her pram, sucking her finger, she said, \"Don't suck your finger, duckie.

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Also, any adult that gives a young child a sharp pair of scissors and then leaves them alone in the room deserves the consequences. So on Bonfire Nights, Mother stayed home with her, while our father took me out to let the fireworks off. 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”.Then another day, when my sister was saying \"Mum, Mum,\" and playing with her piggy toes, she saw our father looking at her, so she said, \"Dad, Dad,\" instead! She learned to say, \"pram, pram, pram,\" when she saw it, and \"ride, ride, ride,\" to show that she wanted to go out.

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My sister was so proud when she saw it going into the water on Christmas morning she almost forgot her new toys. It was quite a hard job because she had to climb up and down so much, but she did it, and she didn't spill anything either. When George came to see us again, he was surprised to find that my funny little sister had made the horse into a pram, but he said, \"Well, anyway, she can walk now! My Naughty Little Sister Learns to Talk When she said it to him too, Mr Jones said my sister was a \"little knock­ out\", which meant she was very clever indeed. The lady said, \"The Sunday School children always bring toys to Church on Christmas Day to send to the children in hospital.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. After West Kirby high school for girls, which she left at 16, Shirley studied at Liverpool College of Art and, with an ambition to join the theatrical world, went to Birmingham Rep, where she made sets and designed costumes. He made a strong little wooden horse, with a long wavy tail, and a smily-tooth face that he painted himself. My Naughty Little Sister and the Ring Along time ago, when I was a little girl and my sister was a very, very little girl she was always putting things into her mouth to see what they tasted like. I loved meeting the characters for the first time, though I'm not sure about all of the messages - after all, children WILL get up to mischief, WILL make mistakes.

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I had already immersed myself in these wonderfully skilled and satisfying stories by reading them aloud to my own children. These discussion questions and activity suggestions provide opportunities to develop english and personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education knowledge and skills in meaningful contexts across all UK curricula.

The appeal of Shirley’s books is obvious: her engaging characters have immediacy and vigour that come from her skilful and distinctive illustrations, using pen and ink, watercolour and gouache.