My Naughty Little Sister

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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. 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." 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. 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.

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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.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. 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? Before long, that trifle was disappearing fast, because once My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry started eating, they found they couldn't stop.

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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? If you were to share a story about your own sibling, what funny adventure would you tell about them?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.

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Do you have a little sister or brother? What are some fun things you like to do together with them? Have you read any books where the main character is a bit mischievous? What happened in those stories? 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. 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. 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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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.