Mr Grumble - Roger Hargreaves

I loved the Mr Men for many, many years. For as long as I can remember in fact. As a young child I will admit I was positively obsessed with them and had Mr. Men everything, from pyjamas, to mugs, to wall charts and clocks. The Mr Men series is a collection of 46 stories written first by Roger Hargreaves and then later by his son Adam. The book I am now going to review, Mr Grumble, is number 41 in this series. The book itself is square in shape and white in colour. On the front is a picture of Mr Nonsense and above him is printed his name in block, black capitals. Mr Grumble is an oblong shaped purple character that is forever grumbling. For this ...  Read the complete review

Mr Grumble is the 41st of the popular Mr Men children's books created by Roger Hargreaves. The books were a favourite of mine when I was a child, and now my son loves them as well. The author started writing them in 1971 after his son asked him what a tickle looked like and he drew it, resulting in the first book in the series, Mr Tickle. His son, Adam, continued writing and illustrating the stories after Roger's death in 1988, and this is the second of those. Mr Grumble is a small purple man with a pale green hat and a miserable expression. And the man cannot stop grumbling. His neighbours are fed up with him grumbling all the time. He even wakes up grumpy. ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger, I always used to take Mr Men and Little Miss books into school for the teacher to read to the class at the end of the day. I'd passed them on to my silbings however, and recently stumbled across them when I was holidaying. I decided to give some a read, and opened up book number 41, 'Mr Grumble'. Mr Grumble is a purple character with a constant frown. In his story, Mr Grumble wakes up grumpy. When a wizard appears by magic and casts a spell on him, something begins to change. Every time he grumps and groans, Mr Grumble turns into a pig. Is smiling the only medicine? This book, written by Roger Hargreaves, is quite an entertaining ...  Read the complete review

Mr Grumble is an oval shaped man who is a purple colour and wears a green hat. He always has a miserable face and a frown on his forehead. He is number 41 in the collection. The front cover of the book is white with a picture of Mr Grumble and the title in black letters above and the back cover of the book is also white with smaller pictures of the other characters in the collection. THE STORY The book starts by telling us that Mr Grumbles name suited him as when he woke each morning he would grumble about it being the start of another horrible day. He moaned every afternoon when he went for his walk in the country saying he hated the ...  Read the complete review

The Mr Men collection is great for reading stories to your kids, they are short, fun and have nice pictures that your children will enjoy a lot. Mr Grumble is one of the many books in the Mr Men collection, he is an egged shaped Mr men, he is purple and wears a small green hat, he never smiles and has a frown on his face. As his name says, Mr Grumble is always moaning and grumbling all day and about everything, one day when he was walking in the countryside grumbling as usual, a wizard suddenly appeared... To find out more read this book to your children; you will both have a great time. This is a very entertaining book for little ones, they ...  Read the complete review