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Nanny McPhee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda - Community Reviews back

by Christianna Brand
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megancsparks
megancsparks rated it 15 years ago
This is pretty cute and the author's writing style is unique and fun, but I found that I only really enjoyed the first book in the series. The other two were pretty boring and repetitive. I do think it would be a fun book to read to children, spacing each book out so that it's more like revisiting a...
mollysmommyreads
mollysmommyreads rated it 16 years ago
The three Nurse Matilda books that inspired the Nanny Mcphee movies together in one volume. Similar to the Mary Poppins books by P.L. Travers.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 19 years ago
excellent Edwardian Mary Poppins-like stories. Like many other children's books of the era, the stories don't form a solid narrative arc. For that see the adaptation into Nanny McPhee. Unlike Mary Poppins, it doesn't seem to be suffering from distressingly racist assumptions.
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