My Naughty Little Sister: A Treasury Collection

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Have you read any books where the main character is a bit mischievous? What happened in those stories?

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, Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS . Retrieved 12 June 2017. Births Mar 1921 Brown Phyllis M.F. (mother Saunders) Kingston 2a 880 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. 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.She also edited several anthologies of short stories, folklore and poetry for children, chiefly on the subjects of magic, witchcraft and ghosts. Two of these are Ghosts and Shadows 1980 and Mists and Magic 1983.

Dorothy Violet Ellen Edwards (née Brown; 6 November 1914 – 8 August 1982) was a children's writer from England best known for her My Naughty Little Sister book series and novel The Witches and the Grinnygog (1981). I grew up reading the "My Naughty Little Sister" series by Dorothy Edwards. In retrospect this could have been a conscious decision made my Mum and Dad, lets just say there was MORE than a passing resemblance between the two little girls in the stories and my sister and I (No prizes for guessing which one I was!). My Naughty Little Sister goes Fishing was my favourite of the series.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.