A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story

✍ Scribed by Ashford, Brenda

• Book ID: 107808931
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385536424

✦ Synopsis

Brenda Ashford is the quintessential British nanny. Prim and proper, gentle and kind, she seems to have stepped straight out of Mary Poppins. For more than six decades Nanny Brenda swaddled, diapered, dressed, played with, sang to, cooked for, and looked after more than one hundred children. From the pampered sons and daughters of lords ensconced in their grand estates, to tough East End evacuees during the war, Brenda has taught countless little ones to be happy, healthy and thoroughly well bred. In this delightful memoir, Brenda shares her endearing, amusing, and sometimes downright bizarre experiences turning generations of children into successful adults.

From the moment Brenda first held her baby brother David she was hooked. She became a second mother to him, changing his nappies, reading him stories and giving all the love her warm heart had. Knowing a career caring for children was her only calling in life, Brenda attended London's prestigious Norland...