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Inizia così Tata Matilda, il primo libro della trilogia di Christianna Brand, la storia di una incredibile tata che usa la magia per tenere a bada i tremendi bambini che le sono affidati e per cambiare la loro vita per sempre. Quando Tata Matilda apparve per la prima volta, più di quarant'anni fa, affascinò i lettori di tutte le età. Viene oggi riproposto alle nuove generazioni in edizione economica. Christianna Brand (pseudonimo di Mary Christianna Lewis, nota anche come China Thomson e Mary Ann Ashe,1907-1985 o 1988) è nata a Malaya e ha trascorso l'infanzia in India. Ha ricevuto la sua educazione in un convento francescano che ha dovuto abbandonare nell'adolescenza per motivi economici. Prima di dedicarsi alla scrittura ha svolto diversi lavori, come modella, ballerina, commessa di negozio e governante. Il suo primo romanzo, Death in High Heels, fu pubblicato nel 1941. Un anno dopo debuttò con il suo personaggio più famoso, l'ispettore Cockrill della Polizia della contea del Kent, nel romanzo Heads You Lose. L'ispettore apparirà in sette dei suoi romanzi polizieschi. Il personaggio di Tata Matilda è ripreso in due romanzi successivi, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town (1967) e Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital (1975).
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- Pagine: 160
- Data di uscita: 01-10-2007
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I found "Nurse Matilda" in the library while looking for some books i read in my child-hood and was pleasantly surprised to know that the movie "Nanny McPhee" starring Emma Thompson was based on this book."Nanny McPhee" is one of my all time favourite child-hood movies (even the sequel) that i love
Funny, delightful, wholesome, old-fashioned and just perfectly well suited for children! we chose to listen to this one from audible and I am so glad that we did because the narrator was phenomenal! this was a lunchtime book of hours for three days and every day there were groans when it was time fo Leggi tutto
And as they spoke – lo and behold! – there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed in rusty black; and she said, 'Good evening, Mr and Mrs Brown, I am Nurse Matilda.'Well!She was very ugly – the ugliest person you ever saw in your life! With this unpreposessing descript Leggi tutto
The first in a trilogy of novels about a magical, but very ugly nanny named Nurse Matilda, who tames the unruly and extremely naughty Brown children with the help of her big black stick. Each time the children, whom the narrator tells us are too numerous to name, commit some especially obnoxious act Leggi tutto
I recently read several stories with magical nannies coming to the rescue of families in need. I thought it would be fun to compare each of their pros and cons and see how they lined up ... Nurse Matilda: -Likable nanny. -The children are naughtier in this book; doing things sometimes just for naught Leggi tutto
The Brown children are the most ill-behaved, mischievous, naughty little children in all the world, and the only nanny who can possibly control them or teach them any manners is Nurse Matilda. With her magical walking stick, Nurse Matilda teaches important lessons like going to bed when you're told, Leggi tutto
My literal-minded child was horrified by this. My chaotic Grimms-loving children grasped it instinctively. This is NOT a child raising manual! I really, really like this weird, funny little gem—I love the symbolism, I love the terrible children, all the tropes, and the whole way that goodness/lawful Leggi tutto
I love the movie that is based off of this series, but I'd heard from several sources that the books weren't as good. I read it mostly because it has been sitting on my bookshelf for years, and I wanted to know if it was worth the space it's been taking up. Even with these pretty low expectations th Leggi tutto
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