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Mr. Men #5
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40 pages, Paperback
First published August 10, 1971
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Roger Hargreaves
1,236books350followersRoger Hargreaves was a British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books. He created the Mr. Men series, Little Miss series and Timbuctoo series, intended for young readers. The simple and humorous stories, with bold, brightly coloured illustrations, have sales of more than 85 million copies worldwide in 20 languages.
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September 8, 2021
Mr. Sneeze has quite frankly had enough of living in cold bleak Shiverton in Coldland.
Tired of constantly sneezing, he embarks on a trip to find some sun.
This was a really fun one to read aloud, especially with all the occasional 'Atishoo's!'
Tired of constantly sneezing, he embarks on a trip to find some sun.
This was a really fun one to read aloud, especially with all the occasional 'Atishoo's!'
May 22, 2018
Mr. Sneeze lives in a wonderful land of winter. He sneezes all the time. He meets a meddling wizard who wants to help Mr. Sneeze. Instead of moving Mr. Sneeze down to the warm areas, he destroy the winterlands and brings out the sun. He is some evil wizard. He destroy’s a whole habitat. It sounds like paradise to me.
The nephew loved reading this one. He gets so excited for a new Mr. Men book he hasn’t read yet. This one was good.
The nephew loved reading this one. He gets so excited for a new Mr. Men book he hasn’t read yet. This one was good.
June 26, 2021
Mr. Sneeze is an odd little tale about a kersplosion-shaped chap who lives in Coldland, where the sun never shines. A couple of things are notable about this one (spoilers below, if you care about spoilers for a fifty-year-old children's book):
1. Mr. Sneeze is the only Mr. Man without arms. I like the fact that it's never commented upon that he has no arms; a commendable attitude towards his disability that we could learn a lesson from.
2. The wizard who solves Mr. Sneeze's problem (that he can't stop sneezing, not that he has no arms) must be one of the most powerful sorcerers who ever lived, as he cures a bad case of the sniffles by bringing the sun back to Coldland, which I can only assume involved magically shifting the Earth's axis! One can only imagine the chaos this would have caused worldwide but, damnit, that wizard REALLY felt for poor Mr. Sneeze!
My next book: Mr. Bump
1. Mr. Sneeze is the only Mr. Man without arms. I like the fact that it's never commented upon that he has no arms; a commendable attitude towards his disability that we could learn a lesson from.
2. The wizard who solves Mr. Sneeze's problem (that he can't stop sneezing, not that he has no arms) must be one of the most powerful sorcerers who ever lived, as he cures a bad case of the sniffles by bringing the sun back to Coldland, which I can only assume involved magically shifting the Earth's axis! One can only imagine the chaos this would have caused worldwide but, damnit, that wizard REALLY felt for poor Mr. Sneeze!
My next book: Mr. Bump
April 4, 2017
Hilarious tale by Hargreaves and in the top tier of Mr Mr stories.
February 4, 2018
Mr. Sneeze lives in Coldland, near the North Pole. As everyone who lives there, he always sneezes and he has a red nose.
Every morning Mr. Sneeze woke up, sneezed, got up, sneezed, got dressed, sneezed, went downstairs, sneezed, ate his breakfast, sneezed, and went to work, still sneezing.
Some of the sentences in the book are real tongue twisters :)
One day, Mr. Sneeze decides to travel south where it is warmer. There he meets a wizard. The wizard will help him and the rest of Coldland be warmer.
Mr Sneeze is a truly lovable character. His features (polygonal shape with a red nose) are perfect for him. Sometimes I feel that I look like this when I sneeze.
Every morning Mr. Sneeze woke up, sneezed, got up, sneezed, got dressed, sneezed, went downstairs, sneezed, ate his breakfast, sneezed, and went to work, still sneezing.
Some of the sentences in the book are real tongue twisters :)
One day, Mr. Sneeze decides to travel south where it is warmer. There he meets a wizard. The wizard will help him and the rest of Coldland be warmer.
Mr Sneeze is a truly lovable character. His features (polygonal shape with a red nose) are perfect for him. Sometimes I feel that I look like this when I sneeze.
April 13, 2017
It was very snowy where Mr. Sneeze lived, and that made him sneeze a lot. This apparently made my niece have a straight mouth, which means she felt somewhere in between happy and sad.
March 19, 2025
me as fuck
November 19, 2017
A Cure for a Cold
18 November 2017
At first I thought that I wasn't the only person in this really cool coffee shop reading kids books and writing a review on my laptop, that is until I went to pay for my coffee to discover that there were a number of Little Golden Books on the counter which actually turned out to be the menu (and this isn't the first coffee shop that I have seen them do that, though I must admit that it is cool, even if I'm not a huge fan of the Little Golden Books). Anyway, it did give me an opportunity to read another of my Mr Men collection, and proceed to write a review on it (though I am now sitting in an old man's pub doing so, though you generally don't pull out a laptop in an old man's pub).
So, Mr Sneeze is about this guy that lives in Cold Land, which could be anything from Norway, to Russia, to Canada. However, this is Mr Men, so the actual location of Coldland is unimportant, except that it is pretty close to the North Pole. Anyway, Coldland has elephants, and not the woolly mammoth type elephants, but African style elephants. Still, realism is probably not something that one should expect from Mr Men either, and if I were to criticise it purely upon the fact that African Elephants generally don't survive north of the Arctic Circle you'd probably beat me to death with a hardcover copy of the .
Anyway, Mr Sneeze wants a cure for his sneezes, so he goes on a journey to discover that it isn't actually him that is the problem, but rather his environment. This actually is quite ingenious because some problems are actually cause, not so much because of a defect in the individual, but rather a defect in the environment. Take a person out of that bad environment, or do something to change the environment and suddenly you discover that this person will also change.
However, we also notice that Mr Sneeze simply didn't accept his condition and wallow in self-pity � he actually went and looked for a solution. This is also important because in the end, in many cases, we are responsible for changing the situation in which we lie. It is all well and good that we bemoan our fate, but as Sarah Conner said, there is no fate but that which you create for yourself. Well, not quite, because sometimes, actually quite a few times, fate will have dealt people a pretty bad hand. However, there are a number of us in which this is not the case, and we actually have the ability to change it. As such, if you hate your job, don't go around and tell everybody about it, instead do something to change this reality.
18 November 2017
At first I thought that I wasn't the only person in this really cool coffee shop reading kids books and writing a review on my laptop, that is until I went to pay for my coffee to discover that there were a number of Little Golden Books on the counter which actually turned out to be the menu (and this isn't the first coffee shop that I have seen them do that, though I must admit that it is cool, even if I'm not a huge fan of the Little Golden Books). Anyway, it did give me an opportunity to read another of my Mr Men collection, and proceed to write a review on it (though I am now sitting in an old man's pub doing so, though you generally don't pull out a laptop in an old man's pub).
So, Mr Sneeze is about this guy that lives in Cold Land, which could be anything from Norway, to Russia, to Canada. However, this is Mr Men, so the actual location of Coldland is unimportant, except that it is pretty close to the North Pole. Anyway, Coldland has elephants, and not the woolly mammoth type elephants, but African style elephants. Still, realism is probably not something that one should expect from Mr Men either, and if I were to criticise it purely upon the fact that African Elephants generally don't survive north of the Arctic Circle you'd probably beat me to death with a hardcover copy of the .
Anyway, Mr Sneeze wants a cure for his sneezes, so he goes on a journey to discover that it isn't actually him that is the problem, but rather his environment. This actually is quite ingenious because some problems are actually cause, not so much because of a defect in the individual, but rather a defect in the environment. Take a person out of that bad environment, or do something to change the environment and suddenly you discover that this person will also change.
However, we also notice that Mr Sneeze simply didn't accept his condition and wallow in self-pity � he actually went and looked for a solution. This is also important because in the end, in many cases, we are responsible for changing the situation in which we lie. It is all well and good that we bemoan our fate, but as Sarah Conner said, there is no fate but that which you create for yourself. Well, not quite, because sometimes, actually quite a few times, fate will have dealt people a pretty bad hand. However, there are a number of us in which this is not the case, and we actually have the ability to change it. As such, if you hate your job, don't go around and tell everybody about it, instead do something to change this reality.
September 28, 2015
Ah, Mr Men and Little Miss, how wonderful you are!
These books made up so much of my childhood. No matter what I would go ahead and pick one up. I worked my way through them all a couple of times. Each one has a wonderful story for the child to engage with, each character being fun to read.
Everyone has a bias for their favourite character, yet every book is delightful.
These books made up so much of my childhood. No matter what I would go ahead and pick one up. I worked my way through them all a couple of times. Each one has a wonderful story for the child to engage with, each character being fun to read.
Everyone has a bias for their favourite character, yet every book is delightful.
July 9, 2009
I learned that if you tell someone a magic spell, then it's not magic.
January 3, 2010
You get the feeling these books were simply produced to satisfy the publisher!!
March 31, 2018
Cute stories
September 9, 2017
I read this when I was younger but also got the chance to read it today with my 3 year old cousin and she loved it! I enjoyed reading it as well, very cute collection of books!
July 5, 2018
Wonderful books for children and lot's of opportunities for discussion as you are reading these books.
Children love them and so do I. Highly recommended.
Children love them and so do I. Highly recommended.
March 3, 2023
Cute! This one breaks the pattern (so far) and asks for some audience participation to do a mini “I spy� which is fun. Lots of opportunities to shout “ACHOO!� but I’m still pondering the ethics of wizard climate change�
September 22, 2019
Love it; although clearly written before climate change was understood to be a problem!
May 4, 2023
As someone with hay fever I find this offensive.
September 22, 2019
Wizard was very rude and caused global warming.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 9, 2007
Blame global warming on Mr. Sneeze. In his search for a sneeze free life, Mr. Sneeze heads south for warmer climes and ends up brining the warm weather back north with him to Coldland.
Mr. Sneeze is the first of the Mr. Men books I've read that is in a specific country other than being presumably in miniature villages somewhere in Britain. In this case, the country is named and the way it is described it must be up in the arctic circle like Greenland. With the literal approach to story telling in the Mr. Men books, it would be out of place to set Mr. Sneeze in an icy country ironically named Greenland. Therefore he lives in Coldland.
The artwork for the snowbound sunless city of Shivertown and the snowy hills on the outskirts are a nice change from the usual Hargreaves's garish colors. Unfortunately the story doesn't end with Mr. Sneeze either finding a comfortable place to live south of his home or learning to live with the cold (like putting on warmer clothing). Instead it goes for the "just change the environment" solution without any thought of the consequences. The story ends before there's time for any negative repercussions (flooding in Wobbletown perhaps?) and thus falls flat.
Mr. Sneeze is the first of the Mr. Men books I've read that is in a specific country other than being presumably in miniature villages somewhere in Britain. In this case, the country is named and the way it is described it must be up in the arctic circle like Greenland. With the literal approach to story telling in the Mr. Men books, it would be out of place to set Mr. Sneeze in an icy country ironically named Greenland. Therefore he lives in Coldland.
The artwork for the snowbound sunless city of Shivertown and the snowy hills on the outskirts are a nice change from the usual Hargreaves's garish colors. Unfortunately the story doesn't end with Mr. Sneeze either finding a comfortable place to live south of his home or learning to live with the cold (like putting on warmer clothing). Instead it goes for the "just change the environment" solution without any thought of the consequences. The story ends before there's time for any negative repercussions (flooding in Wobbletown perhaps?) and thus falls flat.
May 21, 2018
Think I’m right in stating that as a boy I had all the pre-1990 Mr Men books with the possible exception of “Mr Snow�. Looking at all the covers apart from the latter jogged my memory.
Sadly I remember little about the stories now, despite reading them numerous times during my boyhood, plus watching the Mr Men cartoons more than once.
Reckon the last time I would’ve read these was 1983, though may have returned to them as late as 1985. Although I’ve forgotten almost everything about this title and all the others I feel that owing to the amount of times I read each publication that they all deserve to be rated five stars.
I’m grateful to Roger Hargreaves for brightening up my childhood with both his Mr Men and the Timbuctoo series of books.
Sadly I remember little about the stories now, despite reading them numerous times during my boyhood, plus watching the Mr Men cartoons more than once.
Reckon the last time I would’ve read these was 1983, though may have returned to them as late as 1985. Although I’ve forgotten almost everything about this title and all the others I feel that owing to the amount of times I read each publication that they all deserve to be rated five stars.
I’m grateful to Roger Hargreaves for brightening up my childhood with both his Mr Men and the Timbuctoo series of books.
August 18, 2013
I absolutely loved these Mr Men and Little Miss books. I remember getting them from my granny every week. There was so much from these simple characters, I remember filling my little bookshelf with all these books making sure I had got them all in right order. I wish I still had these books but somehow most of them got lost with many house moves or my mum gave the rest away. If I ever have kids, I will make sure they get the chance to experience these wonderful, colourful books.
October 3, 2015
My daughter challenged herself to read all the Mr. and Little Miss books, which she has come close to doing. Tonight we read Mr. Sneeze together. I found it cute and entertaining, but I did find three mistakes! There was a missing comma and quotation mark, and "wand" was misspelled "want". It amazes me when I find errors in published writing, but I guess editors are only human. It's still a cute read.
December 19, 2022
This is the story of Mr Sneeze, who lives in Coldland, where everyone is always feeling cold, full of cold and sporting red noses. Mr Sneeze is always sneezing, until he goes for a walk out of Coldland and find the weather getting warmer and warmer until he stops sneezing. He meets a wizard who helps him bring some sun to Coldland. Mr Sneeze completes the magic and Coldland warms up and red noses are a thing of the past!
February 11, 2010
My children loved the story, sneezes amuse them anyway, and they revelled in Mr Sneeze's affliction.
The obligatory long walk in the Mr Men books brings about redemption, but only through the use of magic.
Frankly in these times of global warming I'm not sure that this book sends out the right message, but it is an enjoyable read.
The obligatory long walk in the Mr Men books brings about redemption, but only through the use of magic.
Frankly in these times of global warming I'm not sure that this book sends out the right message, but it is an enjoyable read.
June 16, 2008
Coldland, sneezes and wizards help Mr. Sneeze's nose turn from red to ...
January 17, 2010
Good only if you've never ever seen any other children's books.
August 23, 2010
I really like this book, funny entertaining and makes me curious, easy and meaningful, I love this book
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May 2, 2012GOT A BIT OF A SNUFFY NOSE; WELL IM SURE MY SNEEZE IS IN A MUCH WORSE POSITION SO GET OVER IT!!!
July 16, 2012
I enjoyed this lovley story a lot, sun is really important, the world without it is so gloomy like the Coldland.
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