Just William

I may have read this long ago, when I was a child, but I don't remember. Reading it in 2024, I really enjoyed it: it's better than I expected. William's allowed to get away with far too many outrages, but his point of view on life is often amusing and sometimes hilarious.

I'm vaguely reminded of Nigel Molesworth, but William is younger and more... primitive? And he doesn't go to boarding school, but lives with his parents and elder siblings, none of whom seem to have thought of keeping him in a cage, which would be safer for everyone.

I enjoyed the book well enough to give it four stars, but I'll give it three for now; because, although I enjoyed it, I rather doubt that I'll be rereading it often. If I do, I can add another star later.

When I finish a 1001 Children's Book You Must Read that is as wonderful as this book, I am happy to think I still have 408 more to read. William is a devil of a little boy, a Dennis the Menace, a Leave It to Beaver, a Henry Huggins. He drives his mother and father and sister and brother and aunt and cousin...everybody, in short, crazy with his antics.