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This book is by Christianna Brand and is illustrated by her cousin who is Edward Ardizzone and is published by Bloomsbury Publishing also the book’s ISBN is 0 7475 7899 0 and then why the two cousins got together is to write and illustrate their grandmother’s tales that were about Nurse Matilda.

 And her other name is Nanny McPhee.

Also there are three highly entertaining stories about Nurse Matilda and the Brown Children and the first story that is called Nurse Matilda is set at home. 

Mr and Mrs Brown had a lot of children too, and quite a few of them were their own but they also decided to adopt children too and we get to know the children’s names as we read the story as Christianna the author only tells the names of the children when they are doing something naughty.

And as these are children who runaway, at the end of each story they are running away, and they can’t stop running because Nurse Matilda had probably banged down on her big stick.

They also want to stop, and along the way they see people that were victims of their pranks. And the Brown Children asks for their help but these people don’t. Then as they work out how to stop Nurse Matilda then turns up, and in the book before she has to leave the Brown Children because they have learnt the lessons that she set out to teach them the children then see her big front tooth falling out, and then after it has come out this tooth  turns into something different in each of the three stories.

Also when she is needed because children are misbehaving extremely badly, her face looks quite ugly. But when they learn how to behave the children and their parents then notice that her face has become quite attractive.