My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry

Naughty Little Sister #3

by Dorothy Edwards, Shirley Hughes (Illustrator)

Book by Edwards, Dorothy

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Indonesian Literature

116 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

For the Welsh novelist see Dorothy Edwards

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Born as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family, her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. 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.

Edwards' most famous stories are of My Naughty Little Sister, which she conceived to keep her daughter, Jane, quiet whilst on a family holiday in 1950. She wrote five books of these stories.

She also published 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.

She was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for children's literature for The Witches and the Grinnygog 1981, a novel for children about the survival of benign pagan witchcraft in modern Britain. This novel was later adapted for television.

Edwards was part of the 1950s radio show Listen with Mother, and she also wrote for Playschool and Jackanory.

Reviews

[Daisy May Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

God, My Naughty Little Sister is iconic. Not only does it give you the well-told stories of Dorothy Edwards and their almost palpable gentleness, you also get Shirley Hughes doing what nobody else can. Perfection.

[Marta Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Childhoods favourite

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The British version of Cleary's Ramona stories.

The kids are about 4?? maybe 3??

Good examples of how very young kids think. It will be fun to see what kids have to say about these books. I think the stories will be good to read aloud.

[Ruby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yayyyy

[Zainab Shehabi]

Its so sweet book

[an · Rating 3 out of 5]

seperti adikku yang lain, sekali lagi dia bukan nakal, hanya sedang belajar untuk mengetahui dunia baru yang ada di depannya. asik bukan menjad kanak-kanak yang selalu mencari tahu hal baru dan sibuk dengan dunia yang mereka ciptakan sendiri. bahkan saat ngambek sekalipun

[Mery · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adikku dan temannya Harry ini menggemaskan sekali. Selalu kompak berimajinasi, kompak mencari tahu sesuatu, dan kompak bikin Ibu dan Ayah marah-marah ;D

Dalam buku ini, kalau kuperhatikan, selalu saja orangtua sendiri yang menganggap anaknya "bandel", baik orangtuanya Harry ataupun orangtuanya si Adik. Sedangkan orang lain, seperti para tetangga, malah menganggap mereka sangat menggemaskan. Mungkin karena tidak mengasuh mereka setiap hari, atau mungkin memang cara pandangnya saja berbeda.

[Alice English · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful. Great for a week's worth of bedtime stories

[The Endless Unread · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book about mischievous children. I flew through this book and really enjoyed it. It was engaging, and I loved each short story.

[Lottie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another collection of short stories about a girls naughty little sister.
Perfect for young children, and I definitely think I would have enjoyed these more when I was a child.

[Syifarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Langsung teringat sama buku jaman ketika SD yang dibelikan Mama, judulnya "Si Bandel" penulisnya Edith Unnerstad. Dulu aku membaca buku itu dengan asyik sekali dan sekarang ingin agar Syifa (7 tahun) juga keasyikan membaca buku-buku yang sejenis. Oleh karena itu, aku membeli buku ini dari mbak Retnadi di www.halamanmoeka.com ketika ada obralan, siiip langsung beli 4 serinya. Nah, sebelum kuberikan kepada Syifa, maka aku harus membacanya terlebih dahulu. Daripada ngantuk ketika acara sosialisasi di ruang rapat yang bbbrrr uadem, aku akhirnya memilih untuk membaca buku ini daripada minum kopi pahit yang nantinya bisa bikin mules mencret xixi. Ga pake lama habisnya, bukunya tipis, font hurufnya gede dan ceritanya menarik. Syifa pasti suka.

Buku ini menceritakan tentang seorang kakak yang menceritakan adiknya, gadis kecil yang nakal. Jadi menggunakan sudut pandang orang pertama, ga jelas deh siapa nama si kakak yang bercerita maupun si adik tokoh utama yang nakal ini hihihi. Biasalah namanya juga anak-anak, ada saja ulahnya kan. Nah, di buku ini terdapat 9 (sembilan)cerita yang semuanya menyenangkan untuk dibaca. Bikin senyum-senyum sendiri, karena dunia anak-anak toh di mana saja ya sama. Ketika membaca buku ini, teringat semua ulah Syifa, Farah, dan Azzam yang aneh dan lucu.


Di seri ini, banyak cerita lucu antara si adik yang nakal dan temannya Harry, yang juga nakal tentunya. Mereka berdua membuat ulah yang ampun ada-ada saja, khas anak-anak lah. Kisah mereka berdua bisa dibaca dalam judul Adikku yang Nakal dan Harry Bengal, Adikku yang Nakal dan Harry Bengal di Perpustakaan, Pinggiran Roti, Harry Bengal Nakal Sekali, Harry Bengal dan Pot Kuningan Bu Cokelat. Di kisah Pinggiran Roti, aku langsung teringat pada Syifa yang juga tidak suka memakan pinggiran roti tawarnya. Sedangkan di kisah Adikku yang nakal dan Cincin, di mana si Adik mengira dia telah menelan cincin Bu Clarke, aku teringat si Farah yang saat itu bahkan benar-benar telah memasukkan cincin mainanya ke dalam mulut, dan hampir tertelan! Fyuuh, alhamdulillah saat itu masih sempat dikeluarkan.

[Felicity Terry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book 3 in a box set of 5.

A childhood favourite of mine, I was delighted to receive a set of these books for Christmas. So what of my thoughts so many years later?

Well, I found all five books in the series quite charming BUT I did find My Naughty Little Sister to be more annoying than I had remembered her. OK, so she wasn't always naughty, sometimes just mischievous, and she nearly always saw the error of her ways which I suppose meant she wasn't a total brat but, even so, she was irritating.

First published in the early 1950's I did find the stories quite dated in lots of ways (and I'm not just talking about the use of language or the construction of sentences), the books take you back to a world of hot, buttered toast and frothy milk, to a world where children, in many ways, had much more freedom, to a time when parents won't so suspicious of their neighbours - I've never known any little girl who could count so many grown men as their friends ..... in book one alone there is talk of the milkman, the baker, the coalman, the window cleaner, and the 'shoe mender man' all of whom are friends of My Naughty Little Sister.

Still, a great nostalgic read, I would loved to have shared these stories with our two nieces who alas are now, aged 22 and 13, probably too old to truly appreciate them as I did as a child

[Annamarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

When My Naughty Little Sister is with her best boy - friend Bad Harry they cause a lot of trouble because he is just as naughty as she is and sometimes worse making her looks like an angel compared to Harry.

My favourite story of the little collection was 'Crusts' because hiding food is just typical of a child when they don't like it. I also had a giggle at the last story 'Bad Harry and Mrs Cocoa's art-pot' it is funny to see what things amuse small children. It was also strange seeing little children playing with a mouse because most children I know are scared of little creatures.

The My Naughty Little Sister collection is great and every child should be given the chance to read them, the stories will make any child giggle at the trouble My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry get into.

[ijul (yuliyono) · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Adikku" masih tetap lucu walaupun kata kakak, ayah, dan ibu, si adik ini nakal. Hmm, setelah 'tercerahkan' bahwa jangan sekali-sekali menyebut anak dengan sebutan yang tidak baik, membaca rangkaian buku karya Dorothy ini kok jadi kurang sreg, karena semua orang di sekitar si adik selalu menyebutnya nakal, padahal terkadang kenakalan itu wajar saja, secara dia masih sangat kecil.

Anyway, saya sih suka dengan cerita-ceritanya. Endingnya selalu menyenangkan. Cocok dibacakan untuk anak-anak, tentu dengan sedikit modifikasi/penjelasan soal penyebutan "anak-nakal" itu.

Selamat membaca.

[Rachel Yuska · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bacaan paling cepat.

Si Adik tidak senakal di buku pertama. Ia malah banyak melakukan hal-hal yang manis.

Harry juga nggak bengal-bengal amat, malah lucu ketika ia bermain mimik wajah pada pot pakis cembung.

Suka baca buku ini, karena jadi ingat masa kecil dulu :')

[Emkoshka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another gorgeous helping of childhood nostalgia and innocence, featuring cherubic Bad Harry in more than a few of the stories. My favourite story was the one set at the library, but the one about wash day was also fascinating in revealing a forgotten world. Charming. :)

[Rahmadiyanti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nggak sebadung buku pertama, tapi tetep gemeeeessss sama si adik yang sempat kena batu gara-gara pengen nyobain cincin berlian Bu Clarke :D

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

277 - 2013

[Helen Kollin Fichtel · Rating 4 out of 5]

We loved this! I remembered most of the stories from when I read it the first time around, many, many years ago, and it was just as amusing this time.
Henry really enjoyed it too.

[Jorden Clevenger · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book haves a cool name.

[Dewi Wulandari · Rating 4 out of 5]

buku tipis yang menghibur. cocok untuk bedtime reading. review sesegera mungkin setelah baca dua buku lainnya ya... di vanillaconfeito.blogspot.com

[Elisabeth Oktavia · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Kentang-Kol-Istimewa adalah masakan hari mencuci paling enak di dunia."

dan Sama seperti si adik kecil yang nakal, akupun tak pernah suka dengan Pinggiran Roti ..