The Naughtiest Girl: Naughtiest Girl In The School: Book 1

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Her mother recognizing the fact she is getting spoilt being the only child decides to put her in a Boarding School. The Naughtiest Girl in the School is the first novel in The Naughtiest Girl series by Enid Blyton, published in 1940. The story of little Elizabeth’s struggle to be naughty and horrid to achieve her goal of being sent home from Whyteleafe Boarding School drew me in despite myself, but it was more of a detached scientific reading, a fascination with a world that no longer exists in the depicted way if ever it did. At first I thought that I wouldn’t be able to get used to the archaic language, but it didn’t bother me that much after a while.

I then went home and then looked up all the telephone numbers of all the Blytons in Sheffield in the phone book. I remember there were a lot of Blytons. Most of the stories I liked were those which showed naughty children being punished. I didnt for one moment suspect that Enid might have been 'preaching' in any way. To me, all of the children got what they deserved! I also liked 'The Little Singing Kettle' in the same book.

There are, however, as many points I’d argues make the book inaccessible for today’s youth. Just to mention two: Richard Watson - A talented musician who plays both piano and violin beautifully and plans to become a famous musician one day. He played duets with Elizabeth at the school concert Barbara Stoney tells us that, by 1928, Enid's brother Hanly was married to Floss and they had a baby daughter called Yvonne. Enid was trying to become pregnant herself at that time, unsuccessfully, and "She tried to satisfy her maternal yearnings by seeing as much as she could of her young niece, Yvonne..." So it seems that Enid and Hanly were in touch at that time. Later, Hanly and his wife had another child. Another Meeting is held. John Terry asks for money to buy a new spade. He's the green-fingered boy who spends most of his time in the garden and he loves it. Through his industry the school enjoys green peas and other delights for their meals and he's granted 12/6d immediately (there you are — that's near enough to 70 pence for a garden spade). A class-cheat is reported. His name is Harry and his serious misdemeanour is handled by William who is the head boy and one of the judges. He enlists Mr. Johns' help as well. Elizabeth herself is reported and it's probably not all that surprising seeing that she's the Naughtiest Girl. An unexpected ally speaks up for her before she is punished by the school and then she storms out of the gym! Are they just both simply world famous female authors of fiction who lived around the same time,or do they have lots more in common with each other????

The Naughtiest Girl series starts off with Elizabeth being told that she’s being sent to boarding school. Unhappy with this news, she vows to be naughty and get sent home as soon as possible. While the premise of the series resembles St. Clare’s, I find the difference to lie in Elizabeth’s inability to prevent herself from getting into trouble, despite her good intentions. Even her attempt at catching a thief singlehandedly go haywire when she manages to accuse the wrong person, and instead gets punished for being impulsive and for accusing someone without evidence. I am considering producing a Famous Five Feast for the family (I might attempt to get half the foods in the list- all of them would take me until Christmas to eat )Peter - my liking for this name was more inspired by characters from other books, and in my first couple of years of secondary school I had a crush on a classmate whose name was Peter. Elizabeth is quite furious with this decision and takes a vow to be the be Naughtiest little rascal in school and that Whyteleafe School gets tired of her and expells her, at the same time although she wants to go home she also falls in love with her new school and also develops a bond with a few characters in the Novel.

I was getting tired of the constant "Elizabeth cannot really be bad because she does well in her lessons and is beautiful". Ah yes, only ugly, unintelligent children can be TRULY naughty. Yes, I know, it's the 1940s. People probably did say "Aw, you, naughty? But you're such a pretty little girl" but when you added in the fact that Elizabeth was brilliant at everything she tried without actually trying, it was just too much.Nora O'Sullivan, a monitor at Whyteleafe school, is a girl who upholds its traditions. She is very responsible, jolly and sensible, but does not look below the surface. Elizabeth gets into a lot of trouble with the sometimes unreasonable and strict monitor. Nora looks after the girls in dormitory 6 including Elizabeth, Joan, Ruth, Belinda and Helen. Nora is a strict but fair girl and hates it if the school's traditions are disobeyed. She is Irish.

On the day Elizabeth arrives at boarding school, she can't help thinking that sharing a room with five other girls would be exciting. This is a spoiled child, who just one chapter ago ranted about how she hates other boys and girls. She also gets excited about the gym and as times goes on, you get the impression that she is really enjoying school though most of the other children want nothing to do with her. Does this sound like a child who has no friends at school, HATES her school (which she claims she does) and just wants to go home? Looking at the way people treat her and the fact that she has never been away from home, Elizabeth should be miserable. A miserable child doesn't think "No wonder all the other children here are so happy". She doesn't even seem to miss home, her parents, or her pets Sadly,the errors in the article seem to be what has attracted the the most attention,and not the main point of the comparison...Just how similar as writers are Agatha Christie & Enid Blyton??? Several characters' names are among my favourite names but they actually weren't inspired by Enid Blyton herself. To name some:

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These issues simply don’t turn up in Whyteleafe. The children respect their monitors and make it a point to go to them for help and advice. In The Naughtiest Girl Is A Monitor, Rosemary, a student, goes to Elizabeth, the monitor, when she loses her money, while another student, Kathleen, makes it a point to inform Arabella, a new student, that she has to respect the monitors since they were chosen because the others liked and admired them. This level of accountability also makes the students more independent, responsible, kind, and better at solving problems. The Naughtiest Girl in the School comes to an end — in story only of course, but there are follow-ups which will undoubtedly be welcomed by the many fans of Blyton stories that deal with life at Whyteleafe School far away in the heart of England.