Mr. Skinny - Roger Hargreaves

The Mr Men collection of books is well loved by children and has been for many years. It contains 46 stories written by Roger Hargreaves and later his son Adam. Mr Skinny is number 35 in the collection. Mr Skinny is a very thin oval shaped yellow character with a tall thin red hat on his head. Mr Skinny also has a green nose and a broad smile. This picture of him can be found on the front of the book along with his name in block, black capitals. The back of the book contains much smaller pictures of all the other characters in the collection along with their names and their numbers so that you can easily keep track of which stories you have and haven't read. ...

Mr Skinny is number 35 in the Mr Men collection. He is a long, tall yellow shaped character and he wears a tall skinny red top hat. He also has a round green nose. The cover of the book is white and has a picture of Mr Skinny and the title above this in black lettering. The back cover of the book is also white and has small pictures showing the other characters in the collection. THE STORY The book starts by telling us that Mr Skinny is extraordinarily thin, if he stands sideways you can hardly see him and to make the situation worse he lived in a place called Fatland. In Fatland everyone was as fat as they could be. Dogs in Fatland were also fat ...

Mr Skinny is the 35th of the popular Mr Men children's books written and illustrated 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. Mr Skinny is tall and thin and yellow, with a thin hat. He seems happy, but is skinny because he doesn't eat nearly enough food. He goes to see the Doctor who tells him he is not well because he doesn't eat enough, and sends him to live with Mr Greedy for a bit. Hopefully, this will help Mr Skinny. But does ...