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A review by ladylondonderry
Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales by Christianna Brand, Edward Ardizzone
5.0
My mom loved Nurse Matilda when she was little, and technically the copy I read was one that she found years ago once they started printing it again and she recognized it as her much beloved book. It goes along well with my current fascination with the UK, and my overall love of old fashioned children's stories.
Nurse Matilda is a book about a nanny who comes to look after extremely naughty children (in this case, the Brown children), and teach them how to behave, through the use of her magic black stick. In the first book, it mostly just makes the children repeat whatever they're doing until they just cannot stand it anymore, and they ask to "please stop," in the latter two books, the stick gives them more a dose of their own medicine, and ends when they realize that the baby has gone missing and start to care about someone other than themselves.
It was a bit of an odd shift between the first book and the second two, and I think I would have liked the first as a stand alone, without having read the sequels at all. Still, it was a pleasant read all the way through. Getting used to words like 'bath-chair' instead of wheelchair was a little odd though.
Nurse Matilda is a book about a nanny who comes to look after extremely naughty children (in this case, the Brown children), and teach them how to behave, through the use of her magic black stick. In the first book, it mostly just makes the children repeat whatever they're doing until they just cannot stand it anymore, and they ask to "please stop," in the latter two books, the stick gives them more a dose of their own medicine, and ends when they realize that the baby has gone missing and start to care about someone other than themselves.
It was a bit of an odd shift between the first book and the second two, and I think I would have liked the first as a stand alone, without having read the sequels at all. Still, it was a pleasant read all the way through. Getting used to words like 'bath-chair' instead of wheelchair was a little odd though.