Mr Jelly - Roger Hargreaves

As a young child the Mr Men and Little Miss series of books were always a firm favourite of mine. They were so popular in my house that I had the teddies, the bedding, the curtains, posters, and mugs. I could go on but I'll stop. Come to think of I still have most of that stuff. Anyway as usual I digress. The point is however that once you start reading these books your love for them begins to grow and in my opinion it is this that has made the series so popular. Mr Jelly is number 15 in the Mr Men series, which contains 46 books written by Roger Hargreaves and later his son Adam. Mr Jelly is shaped rather like a jelly to be perfectly honest. He is pink in ...  Read the complete review

Mr Jelly is the 15th Mr Men in the popular series by Roger Hargreaves. It is also published in some places as Mr Nervous. It deals with the emotion of nervousness and how jumpy some people can be. It also deals with trust. The Mr Men books were a favourite of mine as a child and my son now loves them as well. Mr Jelly is probably one of the easier ones to draw, as jelly is an actual thing. Even so, the drawing is done well and cleverly, using a vibrant pink colour and motion lines around his body to denote the wibbly wobbly effect of jelly. He also has a wide open mouth to show being scared all the time. Mr Jelly lives in the middle of a wood as he ...  Read the complete review

Mr Jelly is a wobbly jelly shaped character in pink who is part of the large Mr Men family. The book has a white cover with a picture of Mr Jelly in pink on the front and the title in black on the top. The back of the book has a collection of pictures showing some of the characters available in the collection. THE STORY The book begins by telling us that Mr Jelly is frightened of everything and anything. The slightest little thing would make him wobbly, shake and turn to jelly. So we are told that Mr Jelly lives far away from everyone else in the middle of a wood. Mr Jelly is asleep in bed when a leaf falls from a tree outside ...  Read the complete review