On cloud nine (Mr Daydream - Roger Hargreaves)

Member Name: MI9to5

Product:	Mr Daydream - Roger Hargreaves
Date:	31/08/08 (54 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lovely little story

Disadvantages: Writing too small for some

Mr Daydream is another Mr Men story from the Mr Men Collection written by Roger Hargreaves, which contains 46 books.

Mr Daydream is number 13 in the series and is a pale blue cloud shaped character with a very broad grin. This is the picture of him that is one the front of the book, which is itself small square and white. Mr Daydream's name is then printed above this picture in bold block capitals. On turning the book over you can then see smaller pictures of all the Mr Men in the collection. This is a great way of keeping track of which books you have bought and which you have left to do so.

The story itself is written in the same format as all the other Mr Men stories with writing on the left hand side of the book and colourful pictures on the right. The pictures are extremely bright and cartoon like and so ensure a child's attention is captured throughout the duration of the story but the writing itself although their isn't much of it making the books great for bedtime, it can be rather small.

The book itself is a story about Mr Daydream and this is exactly how the story begins. The story is also about a little boy called Jack. Jack was a very good boy but he was always daydreaming. On day when Jack was at school, daydreaming as usual out the corner of his eye he saw a figure waving to him from the grass in front of the school. Jack was curious and so got up quietly and slipped out of the window to meet the figure who was Mr Daydream.

Mr Daydream asked Jack if he would like to go on an adventure with him and when Jack answered yes Mr Daydream gave the loudest whistle Jack had ever heard and a huge bird landed right next to them. But where would the bird take them and what would Jack and Mr Daydream get up to on their adventure?

This is another great little story but I couldn't help thinking whilst reading it how inappropriate it was for a story to tell children it was a good idea to sneak out of class. I never remember noticing this when I was younger but I did when I read it to my little cousins the other day - is that a sign I'm becoming one of those grumpy people who complain that everything is teaching our 'little-ones' bad ways.

This taken into account I would still highly recommend this story as really I don't think nay child would actually get distracted by this fact and actually think it was acceptable especially with someone on hand to tell them so.

This book can be purchased for £1.99 from most good book shops and less if you shop around.

Summary: Another good Mr Men story