Literary agent for children's books
LAURA CECIL
Nurse Matilda Books by Christianna Brand
Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Age range: 6 to 10
* Now a major film - NANNY McPHEE - produced by Working Title, starring Emma Thompson and Colin Firth
“Full of such inventive naughtiness - it may be better to keep these away from your children.”
EMMA THOMPSON
NURSE MATILDA
Mr and Mrs Brown are in despair. How can they find a nanny or governess when their numerous children are so very naughty? "The person you want," they are told, "is Nurse Matilda." And when Nurse Matilda does arrive, strange things begin to happen...A timeless classic about a magical nanny, based on family stories told to first cousins Christianna Brand and Edward Ardizzone when they were children.
NURSE MATILDA GOES TO TOWN
The Brown children go to stay with their fearsome Great-Aunt Adelaide in London. It is not long before they slip back into their wicked ways and Nurse Matilda has to be called to the rescue once more.
NURSE MATILDA GOES TO HOSPITAL
This time the mischievous Brown children find themselves first in hospital and then by the sea.
"Now a new generation can delight in their breathtaking naughtiness. Ardizzone's copious, brilliantly rendered pen and ink drawings add to the fun"
HORN BOOK
"to be shelved alongside MARY POPPINS and MADAME DOUBTFIRE.....
The late, brilliant Edward Ardizzone did the drawings"
THE WASHINGTON POST
Rights :
illustrations: Laura Cecil
Text: Sarah Molloy, AM Heath Ltd
Publishers:
UK : Bloomsbury
