The stories from this book and the book's two sequels are the basis for the Nanny McPhee movies. When the lesson is finally learned, the children lose their Nurse Matilda, who had looked ugly but is now beautiful to them, and gain many toys. Eventually, they go through lesson seven in a nightmare that accumulates all the past events. The children go through such events as facing being arrested for cannibalism, almost being taken by their Great Aunt Adelaide Stitch, and fighting their staff. Each time, the children had to admit that they had to ask Nurse Matilda to make it stop, without forgetting to say "please." Each time, Nurse Matilda would let them stop and would clean up everything. This caused the children to have to do everything that they were doing, so they became unhappy and caused an even bigger mess than before. Whenever the children wouldn't listen to Nurse Matilda, in any of their lessons, she would thump her stick on the floor. They told her seven things that the children had issues with, and Nurse Matilda considered these things the seven lessons the children must learn. Brown agreed to get Nurse Matilda and she appeared at their house. Brown that they needed to get Nurse Matilda. Their children would always scare off the new nannies, who would tell Mr. Nurse Matilda comes to help their unruly brood using her magical abilities. A family with too many children can't discipline them all.
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