Nurse Matilda

BookBook: Children's

12 Aug

Written By Fred

Author: Christianna Brand

Publisher: Brockhampton Press

Publication Date: 1964

Nurse Matilda has been highly recommended to Mr. and Mrs. Brown as a nursemaid by several agencies. Nurse Matilda arrives at the household of the Brown family and becomes a nanny to the innumerable Brown children. The Brown children are "exceedingly naughty" and frighten off many governesses in wonderfully mischievous ways – until Nurse Matilda comes.

This gallery is composed of scans of the original illustrations.

Book Cover

All children have aunts and most children have at least one really fearsome aunt or even great-aunt

'Good evening, Mr and Mrs Brown, I am Nurse Matilda.'

Hee-haaaaaaaaaw

'Lesson Two,' she said

Mrs Brown was very sweet and she never could believe that the children

Next morning the children wouldn't get up

One upon a time there was a huge family of children

She had been thinking this over

She had never known Sugar to growl before

She looked almost beautiful

Steak and kidney puds, mashed potatoes, swedes

That afternoon Mrs brown said to Nurse Matilda

The butler, who was a large, sad, dignified man called Hoppitt

The children seized one end of the chain of sausages and tugged

The children were very good all the next day

The door swung suddenly inwards and all the children tumbled into the kitchen on top of one another

The skinny little nursery maid stopped

When Nurse Matilda opened the schoolroom door

Why, what a merry game

You needn't think that from then on the Brown children were always good

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Fred

Oil on Canvas

Lucy Brown and Mr. Grimes