Mr. Men Library: Mr. Greedy is Heavily Helpful - Roger Hargreaves

This is one of the books in the follow up series to the original Mr Men series of children's books written by Roger Hargreaves. Following his death, his son Adam continued his work, and has published this series of books, which take some of the favourite Mr Men characters and gives us some extra stories. This Mr Greedy story sees the larger than life Mr Greedy atg home, and explains how he has got so heavy that he has started breaking things by being heavy handed, clumsy and just generally too heavy. Disgruntled and rather miserable, he heads off to Mr Uppity's house, where he has been invited for lunch. What will happen when he gets there? Will he be destined ...  Read the complete review

The Mr Men and Little Miss classic library's have been popular for many years and introduced us to some of the characters that we have come to love so dearly. As a young child the Mr Men and Little Miss stories played a big part in my reading and to be completely honest you wouldn't be wrong if you had said I was obsessed with anything remotely Mr Men like. I had everything from the bedding and curtains to the wall clock and figurines, as well as the usual soft toys and of course the books. As you can imagine therefore when in 1998 Roger Hargreaves' son Adam Hargreaves released a new story library that told new stories about existing characters I was more than eager to ...  Read the complete review