Nanny McPhee embarks on a brand new adventure in this brilliant, funny and captivating novel based on the new Nanny McPhee film. The Green family is trying to survive the war in their house in the country, but unfortunately they are not out of harm's way. A wicked uncle is intent on getting his hands on the family fortune and the children miss their father who is away fighting who knows where, and then their horrible cousins arrive! Life is not easy in the Green household ...Thank heavens for Nanny McPhee!

In wartime England, the two very spoiled Gray children are being sent to stay in the country with their very numerous and ill-behaved cousins, the Greens. Enter Nanny McPhee, who discovers that Mrs. Green and the children are fighting another war altogether-against scheming relatives intent on taking their farm while Mr. Green is off fighting in the war. Nanny McPhee must use her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons, or losing the farm will be the least of their problems...

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were forever having trouble with their numerous and incredibly naughty children . . . until the day Nurse Matilda entered their lives. First published nearly fifty years ago, N urse Matilda and its two companion books- Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and N urse Matilda Goes to Hospital -have charmed readers ever since. Now the inspiration for the major motion picture N anny McPhee, all three beloved books are available once again in a deluxe hardcover edition which features the three complete and unabridged books by Christianna Brand, along with Edward Ardizzone's charming black-and-white illustrations.

Following the success of The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries, Oscar(R)-winner Emma Thompson's delightful script and diary about the making of her newest movie in which she stars as a governess who uses magic to reign in the behavior of seven ne'er-dowell children in her charge.Emma Thompson, whose Sense and Sensibility won the 1996 Oscar(R) for Best Adapted Screenplay, returns to screenwriting and diary writing with Nanny McPhee, a motion picture adaptation of the Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand.In this dark and witty fable, Thompson portrays a person of unsettling appearance and magical powers who enters the household of the widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon (Love Actually's Thomas Sangster), have managed to drive away 17 previous nannies and are certain that they will have no trouble with this one. But as Nanny McPhee takes control, they begin to notice that their vile behavior now leads swiftly and magically to rather startling consequences.Nanny McPhee is directed by Kirk Jones (writer/director of Waking Ned Devine). The producers are Lindsay Doran (in her third collaboration with Thompson, following Sense and Sensibility and Dead Again) and Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Colin Firth (Bridget Jones' Diary), Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote), Kelly Macdonald (Gosford Park), Celia Imrie (Calendar Girls), Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake).