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Advantages: Great story for children Disadvantages: N/A
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.
The story starts with the information that Mr Skinny was extraordinary thin and that if he turned sideways on you could hardly see him. To make matters worse he lived in ...
Advantages: Fun book for children Disadvantages: small writing
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 and so were the worms and the birds. There in the middle of Fatland lived Mr Skinny.
Mr Skinny lived in the thinnest house you will ever see. Mr Skinny did not like being different ...
Nottingham has two large shopping centres, the Broadmarsh Centre and the Victoria Centre, situated at opposite ends of the city centre .The Victoria Centre is the bigger of the two, containing 120 shops (not counting all the various stalls in the market area.)
Getting there is easy - if you drive, there's parking for over 2700 cars . If you don't drive, don't worry - almost all the Nottingham City Transport buses stop either directly outside the Victoria Centre, or within a few minutes walk of it . Other bus companies from slightly further afield, such as Trent Barton , terminate at the local coach station within the centre . If you're walking, the centre is signposted from various points in the city centre, and at the end of the day when you're weighed down with shopping, there are 2 taxi ranks directly outside the main entrance ...
