30 Gifts for 30 Days of November !
Day 1
For November, we thought we would do a series of gift recommendations based on our personal book shelves !
So here is the first of thirty Better Than a Poke in the Eye recommended gifts for the book lover in your life even if that book lover is YOU!
We love the Mr Men and the Little Miss series of books and we are sure there will be a fair few fans amongst our followers.
So we are recommending the Mr Men Little Miss: Postcard Set : 100 iconic images as a gift for the Mr Men and Little Miss Lover in your life !
This box set of 100 postcards contains 100 different images from the books themselves created from 1971 onwards. . From Mr Tickle's extraordinarily long arms to Little Miss Naughty's cheeky grin, there are lots of fun postcards to share, use or decorate your walls with! 100 iconic images to celebrate The Mr Men and Little Miss books!
Who as a child didn’t come across these delightful books? A member of our team still loves the Mr Men and Little Miss stories and has quite the collection here at Better Than a Poke in the Eye!
R.R.P. £14.99
You can purchase it through our online bookshop or through any of our affiliate links.
Better than a Poke in the Eye Bookshop.org : https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3941/9780755502400
Amazon UK : http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/075550240X/ref=nosim?tag=87
Blackwells : https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Mr-Men-Little-Miss-Postcard-Set-by-Roger-Hargreaves/9780755502400?a_aid=BetterThan
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☞ About memefying your self via Roger Hargreaves
I grew up with Little Miss, Mr. booklets lying around, so once I saw people were editing their own version, I had to join.
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More humanizations of Mr. Men characters! Mr. Sneeze is a tall, lanky and thin teenager with spiky dark hair, a blue sweater, red mittens, muted blue pants and black snow shoes. He retains the traditional cartoon eyes of his original design and is the only character thus far to not receive black dot eyes like most Mr. Men, alongside the color of his red nose.
Mr. Impossible is a rotund and jolly middle-aged man who also has dark hair, wears a violet jacket over his white shirt and black tie, muted violet pants and black shoes. He still has the ability to do impossible things and retains his usual blue hat from his original design.
Mr. Men and Little Miss is property of Roger Hargreaves and Sanrio.
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Messiness Obliterated
Mr. Messy
By Roger Hargreaves
Egmont World, 1972
In The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell’s account of his time spent among coal mining communities in northern England, he recounts how when he was brought up he was taught that the lower classes smell. He writes:
Race-hatred, religious hatred, differences of education, of temperament, of intellect, even differences of moral code, can be got…
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