These three stories in one volume are the basis for the recent movie, "Nanny McPhee". Written in a similiar voice to the Lemony Snicket books but with less "disasters" and more the pranks of naughty children in need of discipline, attention and love.
A very clever trio of tales about naughty children and the rather magical (and ugly) Nanny who takes them in hand. This is the book from which came the movies about Nanny McPhee.
