More William retails the adventures of William Brown is an eleven-year-old boy, eternally scruffy and frowning and his family. William's family, his elder red-gold haired sister Ethel and brother Robert, his stern father, and never-ending supply of elderly aunts, cannot understand William. Only his placid mother has any sympathy for him, though his father sometimes shows a side of himself that seems to admit he was once like William himself.