The Little Miss series gets off to a flyer! (Little Miss Bossy - Rodger Hargreaves)

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Product:	Little Miss Bossy - Rodger Hargreaves
Date:	09/10/08 (25 review reads)
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Advantages: Great kids' book

Disadvantages: None

Little Miss Bossy is the 1st Little Miss book. Roger Hargreaves created the Mr Men in 1971. Ten years later, he created the Little Misses as well, off the back of the success of the Mr Men. They are lovely books, which I enjoyed when I was a kid. My son prefers the Mr Men books as he can relate to them more being a male, but they're still very good.

Little Miss Bossy is a small, dark blue blob, with a red and yellow hat with a flower poking out of it. Her mouth is wide, and she looks bossy! In the story, she keeps going round bossing all the Mr Men around. The wizard sees this and looks in his magic book for a way to stop this. The next day when he spots Little Miss Bossy being bossy again, he says a special word - but has it had an effect on her?

I like this book - it's a great one to start them off. It's funny, and also carries a moral to the story, a trait of many of Hargreaves' books. This one tells us that it is not good to be so bossy, especially when it's nothing to do with us. The wizard character appears in various guises in many of the Mr Men and Little Miss books, and normally teaches the more naughty characters a lesson, as is the case here. The illustrations are very colourful and vibrant and are on the right hand pages in the book, and the writing is on the left hand pages. This is in keeping with the layout of the Mr Men books.

The Little Miss books retail for £2.50 each, but amazon.co.uk are currently selling them for £2.25. I recommend the Little Miss books as well as the Mr Men books.

Summary: Little Miss No.1 Little Miss Bossy