My Naughty Little Sister - Dorothy Edwards

When I was a little girl I loved these books -I was the naughty little sister with a good girl older sister, I even looked like her-. Now I'm a big teenager as it were I still love these books, I read them to remind me of my childhood. They influenced me so much, I still remember reading about her making her christmas pudding, I insisted that year we make our christmas pudding on stir up sunday exactly the same way. If you want your child to have fond memories of bedtime, read them My Naughty little sister - a welcome break from Cbeebies-. It will remind you of your own childhood and educate your children about life before TV, DVD, XBOX and computers. I loved it, my ...  Read the complete review

My daughter is now seven years old and in school she is being taught to read by the phonics method. I found the method quite difficult to get an understanding of, I couldn't understand why they were taught to read by learning sounds rather than how to make words through spelling. I can now say that I have become more comfortable with the method, she has been learning this way for over two years. My daughter is now at the stage where we are to encourage her to read on her own, in school this is called independent reading and we are to continue with this at home. In order to encourage my daughter to gain confidence in her reading we have enrolled her at the local library. ...  Read the complete review

Wonderful book to read to young children, not the same style but as enthralling as Roald Dahl books - Advantages: Enthralling, short stories, Illustrations - Disadvantages: Not enough of them

The collection of My Naughty Little Sister books written by Dorothy Edwards were very popular with me, when I was young and now my seven year old loves them too. They are ideal for reading aloud to children aged around four or five, or for older children to read to themselves. The books in the collection are My Naughty Little Sister, More Naughty Little Sister Stories, My Naughty Little Sister And Bad Harry, When My Naughty Little Sister Was Good and My Naughty Little Sister's Friends. The editions we bought recently were published by Mammoth, illustrated by Shirley Hughes and priced £3.99 each. The stories were originally written in 1952, so it ...  Read the complete review