More William

About this film

LibriVox recording of More William by Richmal Crompton. Read by Tim and Barbara Bulkeley. "It was on Christmas Day that the centipede appeared on Aunt Evangeline's plate, the library clock was found mysteriously dismantled, and the conjuring trick with the egg went disastrously wrong. But as William's Aunt Lucy told him, A Busy Day is a Happy Day - and William is always eager to please adults. The terror of the Brown family is back, leaving a trail of havoc behind him - with the very best of intentions." (More William book jacket) Lovers of British family sitcoms are either already William fans, or are likely to become avid followers of the dogged and imaginative child and his not always patient family. Richmal Crompton's William series of books tells the relationship between adults and children from a child's perspective hilariously highlighting the different viewpoints. Most of us have been William (e.g. children who cannot understand the strange and arbitrary or contradictory rules the adult world imposes) or have dealt with a William (never sure whether he is the little boy pointing out the emperor's lack of clothes or a nuisance defending his crimes with infuriating (il)logic.…

Directors & creators

Richmal Crompton

Subjects

librivox; audiobook; fiction; children

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