There are more Brown children than you can accurately count or name, and they are all perfectly beastly. In fact, they are so naughty that parents might want to take a good look at them before giving them to their kids. And though each book begins and ends in a similar way, the middle parts are surprisingly inventive…and very, very naughty. But actually, these are belly-laugh-a-minute tales of mischief with only a little, a very little, moralizing magic thrown in. I was worried that they would be too sugary and all the same, like the Mary Poppins books which I stopped reading after about the third one. I approached this trilogy with some caution. In fact, the about blurbs at the end of the book suggest that they were part of a large brood of badly-behaved children, like the Brown children in these books, and that their grandmother told them stories about Nurse Matilda when they were particularly naughty. Brand, spent time with the author and her family when they were children. They are illustrated by award-winning artist Edward Ardizzone, who, as a cousin of Ms. Published between 19, these stories are hilarious reminiscences of childhood in the Victorian age. I am stubbornly refusing to put that title above this review, however, because the name Nanny McPhee never once appears in these books, and the poor author is no longer around to say anything about it. These three books are now available in a single-volume edition titled Nanny McPhee, in honor of the 2006 motion picture that is more or less based on them.
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