My Naughty Little Sister

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My sister didn't know anything about trains then, but it was such a lovely game that she made all the noises Harry made and said \"Engine\" too. Mother said, \"But they are going to have baked potatoes and sausages and spicy cakes and all sorts of nice things to eat.

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Falls in the water, throws workmen's sandwiches around, but she is just a little girl and really more silly and wild than truly 'bad'.She won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and was awarded the OBE for her distinguished service to children's literature. 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). She just ate her jam tart, then she gave Mrs Jones a big kiss-with-jam-on, but she didn't say anything. My little sister said the lady's pudding would look very grand with special holly on it, and the lady said she was sure it would.

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And my sister looked at the poor teary baby in the glass, and she saw that the baby was copying her. And although she was a very busy lady, she took my little sister and the twinnies upstairs to her bedroom, and showed my sister herself and two little looking-alike girls in the wardrobe mirror. My Naughty Little Sister and a jam tart; but she was surprised as well, and said, \"How did you get here, duckie? She would stare at Mrs Jones instead, and when Mrs Jones said, \"Poor little thing, poor little thing,\" to her, my sister would go all mousy quiet for her. Say Thank you, Cousin George, for the nice horse',\" and she lifted my sister up so that she could give him a nice \"thank you\" hug, because of course that was the way my sister thanked people in those days.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 said when Christmas Eve came if she still wanted to go with Grandad it would be quite all right. So, one morning, when Mrs Jones looked over the fence and saw my baby sister in her pram, sucking her finger, she said, \"Don't suck your finger, duckie.

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Mr Jones planted i a pink rose to go over the top of it, and made a path from the gate to his garden path.Then the Washing Lady came out from the back room, and the two little alike girls ran to her, and hung on to her apron. 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. Grandad's Special Holly My naughty little sister did enjoy that ride, even though the holly prickles poked through the sacks and scratched her a little bit. Granny was quick as quick, and every time my sister finished doing one thing, she found something else for her to do at once. My Naughty Little Sister She still went out in a pram sometimes, she could walk a bit, but when she was in a great hurry she liked crawling better.