The Adventures of Naughty Nora

Stephen Cottrell

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Naughty Nora is the nine year old child that many would like as a friend and most teachers would dread having in their class!  She is full of fun and mischief, but she isn’t very good at not getting caught.  However, when caught, she is meek enough to apologise, learn her lesson and thereby earn the affection of those she has wronged.  Would that all the naughty Noras in my class should be so endearing!

This book is a collection of 14 short stories about Nora’s escapades.  At the end of each story, there is a question to explore, a Bible verse, a short prayer and a suggestion for the storyteller.

The one I read aloud to my 11 year olds took 15 minutes to read and I was able to use the prayer verbatim.  Not all the prayers were as accessible though, as some of the concepts, “...being washed clean…”, needed some Christian background to be understood.

One minor difficulty of the book is that it advertises itself as being for KS2 and, although my class listened politely, they felt that the story would be better for the upper end of KS1 or lower KS2.  In another less tolerant school, I rather fear Year 6 natives would be very restless!  

However, I will use it for mixed age group assemblies - there’s nothing so much fun as listening to someone else getting into trouble!

Reviewer: Jan Randall, Class Teacher and RE Manager, Nursling Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire

Review posted on: 27 June 2008

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