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 ...
Advantages: Simple to use Disadvantages: Dodgy cd player and obnoxious smell
~~ Purchase ~~
I bought my SP122 at Argos over two years ago along with a compatible and matching Acoustic Solutions SP101 Amplifier, Acoustic Solution SP111 DAB/FM Tuner and a pair of Acoustic Solution AVCS Column Stereo Speakers. I took advantage of a deal that was on offer at the time whereby if you bought the amp, tuner and CD player you would receive the speakers for free.
~~ Set up and Appearance ~~
This is an easy to use and uncomplicated CD unit. It's easy and straight forward to set up and attach to other units. I must admit though, it looked much better in the Argos catalogue than it does now that I have it set up in the living room. It's kind of plain in appearance, there are no fancy glowing lights. There is just one LCD panel that has a back light. The dimensions of the unit are 8cm(H), 43cm(W), 28.5cm(D) excluding ...