Comments on: Mr Men :-(

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:10:17 +0000

Oh, sorry Merry, don’t let me put you off, some people seem to like them -)

Thing sis I can’t quite decide what it is I don’t like, they don’t on the face of it seem anyn worse than many other books, but once I read them ‘Arrrgh’, it really seems to grate. I read 3 to SB at bedtime though. She seems to liek them.

By: Merry

Merry — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:54:02 +0000

oh no, we have the set and i’ve been looking forward to reading them!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:42:12 +0000

I started by quite liking them, but now the ‘style’ is grating on me and I’m rapidly going off them!

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:55:20 +0000

I quite like them, mainly because I can remember reading them as a child so there is a sort of nostalgia about them (like Bagpuss!). But I agree, there is very little in terms of great literature about them!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:04:29 +0000

I hate them too – I would be refusing to read them if I were you! We, well, Joe, has had a ‘thing’ about the Happy Families books which are almost as bad!

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:54:05 +0000

ROFL!! you have my deepest sympathy! WE have the full set, up high on a shelf as a bribe to get Becca reading…. it worked for a few weeks then she decided that they weren’t worth the effort of learning to read for when Mummy will read all those other books to her anyway ;o)

By: Dani

Dani — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:39:36 +0000

Aren’t they awful? I loved them as a child, and spent ages drawing pictures of the various Mr Men, so I guess even the most tedious books can have some educational value. I thought Victoria Wood had it right, though, about how you could easily find you’d written one by accident, just brushing past the computer keyboard.

By: jax

jax — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:31:27 +0000

roflmao

apparently I will be getting to know the Mr Men much better soon, as they are used by our speech therapist – Mr Sneezy says achoo, Mr Bump says ouch and so on…