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Mr. Men #29
Mr. Quiet
Picture character books
36 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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Roger Hargreaves
1,349 books373 followersRoger 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 7, 2021
This was so wholesome.
Mr. Quiet is an outlier in Loudland, the timid guy normally keeps himself removed from those around him and only venturing out when he needs anything from the shop.
The quietly spoken individual is harshly treated as the various vendors refuse to service him as his to timid.
Thankfully help is offered as one of the popular characters in the series suggests moving nearer to him, whilst even finding the perfect job for his silent friend.
I really liked the moral with this one as it showed the different characteristics that people inhabit shouldn't be discourage, a friend reaching out and showing support has made Mr. Quiet's life so much more happier.
Mr. Quiet is an outlier in Loudland, the timid guy normally keeps himself removed from those around him and only venturing out when he needs anything from the shop.
The quietly spoken individual is harshly treated as the various vendors refuse to service him as his to timid.
Thankfully help is offered as one of the popular characters in the series suggests moving nearer to him, whilst even finding the perfect job for his silent friend.
I really liked the moral with this one as it showed the different characteristics that people inhabit shouldn't be discourage, a friend reaching out and showing support has made Mr. Quiet's life so much more happier.
February 17, 2018
My nephew loves this series and I Had to read this to him. Each one is so interesting and it's own connected to the whole Mr. Men.
I'm not exactly quiet, but I too would hate to live in the land of LOUD. It would be miserable. I'm glad Mr. Quiet found the library. It is one of the most wonderful things humanity does for itself. Yeah Mr. Quiet!
I want to read more of these. They are fun and interesting.
I'm not exactly quiet, but I too would hate to live in the land of LOUD. It would be miserable. I'm glad Mr. Quiet found the library. It is one of the most wonderful things humanity does for itself. Yeah Mr. Quiet!
I want to read more of these. They are fun and interesting.
July 15, 2018
Mr. Quiet loves peace and quiet, but unfortunately he lives in the loudest town. He talks so soft that often he goes to bed hungry because nobody can hear him and give him food.
The good thing is that he does not compromise.
He will move to the nicest town and he will find the perfect job. As a
The good thing is that he does not compromise.
He will move to the nicest town and he will find the perfect job. As a
August 23, 2016
A Place for Everyone
22 August 2016 - Lille
One of the annoying things about travelling is that I end up not having enough time to sit down and write a book review, or if I do it is some time after I've either finished the book, or I have left the place where I wanted to write the review. I am currently in Arras France, and I only realised this afternoon that I wanted to write a review in Lille, not that there is all that much in Lille, just a park, a zoo, The Mother of all Citadels (actually it is the Queen of Citadels, but I like my version better), and a railway station for the the Eurostar. Oh, I also happened to find this sign outside a military installation, which suggests that they were having a little problem with Pokemon players:
Anyway, even though I am in Arras, I will still mark this review as having been written in Lille, namely because it is only a half-hour train journey away, and since it takes me an hour to get from home to work in the morning, I guess being half-an-hour away from a place technicality counts being in a place.
So, here we have poor Mr Quiet who happens to live in a place called Loudland. It seems that all of the Mr Men seem to live in places which really don't suit them. The thing with Loudland is that for anybody to hear you you need to shout. It is sort of like when you would listen to Metallica at full bore when you were a kid and your parents told you off because loud music damages your ears. Actually, come to think of it my mobile phone tells me off if I listen to music too loud and automatically turns it down, which is really annoying because when I was I kid I listened to Metallica too loud and now my hearing has been damaged. Then again, I actually don't listen to all that much music anymore – I sort of prefer it to be played in the background at a pub as opposed to pretty much all day, every day on my mobile phone (like some soundtrack to my life).
The problems that Mr Quiet faces is that he can't communicate with anybody because he doesn't speak loud enough, which means that he can't buy any food and he can't eat. Also, because everybody shouts in Loudland he can't get a job because nobody can hear him. It sort of makes me think not so much of a minority but rather a person with a disability, even if that disability is not being able to speak the native language of the country one is in. The thing with a lot of people can't stand people who can't speak our native language. Well, I have an idea to help one understand their frustrations – do six months of French (assuming you don't know any French) and then go wandering around the back roads of France. Actually, try doing that without knowing any French and you would probably know how Mr Quiet feels. Okay, you can always communicate by pointing, but the thing is that when you go to a foreign country and attempt to communicate with people knowing little, or even nothing, of their native tongue, you will come to appreciate the difficulties foreigners have in communicating with us in our country.
Of course, there are always those who expect everybody to be able to speak English, but that is a different story. Anyway, I better finish this off because I am off to Amiens so I better attempt to squeeze all the junk that I have picked up on the way back into my suitcase.
22 August 2016 - Lille
One of the annoying things about travelling is that I end up not having enough time to sit down and write a book review, or if I do it is some time after I've either finished the book, or I have left the place where I wanted to write the review. I am currently in Arras France, and I only realised this afternoon that I wanted to write a review in Lille, not that there is all that much in Lille, just a park, a zoo, The Mother of all Citadels (actually it is the Queen of Citadels, but I like my version better), and a railway station for the the Eurostar. Oh, I also happened to find this sign outside a military installation, which suggests that they were having a little problem with Pokemon players:
Anyway, even though I am in Arras, I will still mark this review as having been written in Lille, namely because it is only a half-hour train journey away, and since it takes me an hour to get from home to work in the morning, I guess being half-an-hour away from a place technicality counts being in a place.
So, here we have poor Mr Quiet who happens to live in a place called Loudland. It seems that all of the Mr Men seem to live in places which really don't suit them. The thing with Loudland is that for anybody to hear you you need to shout. It is sort of like when you would listen to Metallica at full bore when you were a kid and your parents told you off because loud music damages your ears. Actually, come to think of it my mobile phone tells me off if I listen to music too loud and automatically turns it down, which is really annoying because when I was I kid I listened to Metallica too loud and now my hearing has been damaged. Then again, I actually don't listen to all that much music anymore – I sort of prefer it to be played in the background at a pub as opposed to pretty much all day, every day on my mobile phone (like some soundtrack to my life).
The problems that Mr Quiet faces is that he can't communicate with anybody because he doesn't speak loud enough, which means that he can't buy any food and he can't eat. Also, because everybody shouts in Loudland he can't get a job because nobody can hear him. It sort of makes me think not so much of a minority but rather a person with a disability, even if that disability is not being able to speak the native language of the country one is in. The thing with a lot of people can't stand people who can't speak our native language. Well, I have an idea to help one understand their frustrations – do six months of French (assuming you don't know any French) and then go wandering around the back roads of France. Actually, try doing that without knowing any French and you would probably know how Mr Quiet feels. Okay, you can always communicate by pointing, but the thing is that when you go to a foreign country and attempt to communicate with people knowing little, or even nothing, of their native tongue, you will come to appreciate the difficulties foreigners have in communicating with us in our country.
Of course, there are always those who expect everybody to be able to speak English, but that is a different story. Anyway, I better finish this off because I am off to Amiens so I better attempt to squeeze all the junk that I have picked up on the way back into my suitcase.
September 2, 2021
Mr. Quiet lives unhappily in Loudland where everything, to the noise averse Mr. Man’s horror, is LOUD. This begs the question: why does Mr. Quiet live in Loudland?
Did Loudland grow up around Mr. Quiet’s house? If he moved there, why did he move there? Was it the only place the property was cheap enough for him to get a foot on the property ladder? Was it a ‘you only get your inheritance if you spend a night in a haunted house’-type deal?
Whatever the reason, he jumps at the chance to visit Mr. Happy, who has a solution to Mr. Quiet’s problem.
This is a really sweet book and, living on a busy main road in a listed building that we’re not allowed to install double glazing in, I definitely empathise with Mr. Quiet’s plight.
My next book: Maestro: War and Pax
Did Loudland grow up around Mr. Quiet’s house? If he moved there, why did he move there? Was it the only place the property was cheap enough for him to get a foot on the property ladder? Was it a ‘you only get your inheritance if you spend a night in a haunted house’-type deal?
Whatever the reason, he jumps at the chance to visit Mr. Happy, who has a solution to Mr. Quiet’s problem.
This is a really sweet book and, living on a busy main road in a listed building that we’re not allowed to install double glazing in, I definitely empathise with Mr. Quiet’s plight.
My next book: Maestro: War and Pax
December 27, 2022
4.25 stars!!
Cutest Mr. Men!! This was really wholesome 🥰
Cutest Mr. Men!! This was really wholesome 🥰
November 30, 2009
A tale of the underdog, oppression of a minority and ultimately a redemption tale.
Mr Quiet is trapped in Loudland, not living, merely existing. He's outside society's norms: too quiet, unassuming and unable to stand up for himself. His voice is literally unheard, ignored by everyone and facing a society unwilling to adapt to his needs.
He's rescued by the good samaritan Mr Happy and finds solace and satisfaction in Happyland. Intolerance is the victor again....
Mr Quiet is trapped in Loudland, not living, merely existing. He's outside society's norms: too quiet, unassuming and unable to stand up for himself. His voice is literally unheard, ignored by everyone and facing a society unwilling to adapt to his needs.
He's rescued by the good samaritan Mr Happy and finds solace and satisfaction in Happyland. Intolerance is the victor again....
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 2, 2023
Très représentatif. J’ai envie de devenir bibliothécaire maintenant
November 26, 2017
Poor Mr Quiet, although he lives in a beautiful country home in the middle of the woods, he is malnourished because his requests to purchase food go unnoticed and unheard in loud land. Give this man a burger!!! And, I think this poor fellow needs a bullhorn. Instead he uproots his life, abandons his home, and moves away. Trading his lovely home for quieter neighbors and a new job perfectly suited to him seems to be the wisest choice in the end. Truly proving that possessions can’t buy happiness.
January 3, 2015
This is definitely one of my top favorite Mr. Men books and I just adore the ending. Hurrah . As a bookish and often very quiet person who doesn't enjoy lots of chaotic loud noise this one really appealed to me.
I really need to own the whole set of Mr. Men! They make me so very happy. I loved them as a kid, though I think I only ever read a few of them. The whole series is like a warm cup of children's tea on a snow day.
I really need to own the whole set of Mr. Men! They make me so very happy. I loved them as a kid, though I think I only ever read a few of them. The whole series is like a warm cup of children's tea on a snow day.
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.
June 16, 2008
I wuld hope the Mr. Men books need little introduction. They are universally excellent and highly recommended for young readers from 3 - 10.
No particularly insightful reviews on the other Mr. Men books will be forthcoming. This one isn't really too insightful, is it?
No particularly insightful reviews on the other Mr. Men books will be forthcoming. This one isn't really too insightful, is it?
May 5, 2020
A good family read with Roger again. This time with a book I hadn’t read before.
December 26, 2021
This one would be a pretty good book for a kid to read in a library.
April 15, 2026
This is a cute story in the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves. I remember reading them when I was young and thought they were fun, easy reads.
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July 19, 2024(Found left on one of the desks after Chess and Science Club, probably by a frazzled Year 7 who had remembered to bring his planner, blazer, calculator, PE kit, ruler and report card but forgot to take home his book.)
I don't know what I, a lifelong introvert, am doing teaching at a boisterous and busy secondary school in Croydon. But slowly I am learning to love it. I am writing this from my classroom with a view of a couple chestnut trees, an aging block of council flats, a modern upmarket block of high-rising apartments, and the walls of this school which has stood the test of time over the past 140+ years.
Governments come and go, new educational fads pass into and out of existence, teachers arrive full of zeal and enthusiasm and leave withered and decayed from the daily beatings that the job puts into you. But the school survives. There is something timeless about it. It has an identity. It has a name. It is one of the few schools in the local area that hasn't shut down over the past few decades, and it's one of the few schools that has never been tempted into academy status, that seedy compromise which so many schools fall into in which they lose their individual character and become a business or a hostel rather than a home for the children who enter their care.
It is a good school.
And in spite of my navel-gazing, I am happy here.
I look forward to returning in September, when I will have my own classroom and I will be a more rooted figure in the school. But I can't pretend that I'm not relieved to have reached the end of term and the end of the school year and, most notably, the end of the PGCE. I made it and I am about to cross the finish line. But I should not get ahead of myself, because there are a number of things that could still go wrong before we line the children up one last time and shepherd them out of the school gates and on to their summer holidays. They must be so excited. And I am too.
See you soon,
Benedict
I don't know what I, a lifelong introvert, am doing teaching at a boisterous and busy secondary school in Croydon. But slowly I am learning to love it. I am writing this from my classroom with a view of a couple chestnut trees, an aging block of council flats, a modern upmarket block of high-rising apartments, and the walls of this school which has stood the test of time over the past 140+ years.
Governments come and go, new educational fads pass into and out of existence, teachers arrive full of zeal and enthusiasm and leave withered and decayed from the daily beatings that the job puts into you. But the school survives. There is something timeless about it. It has an identity. It has a name. It is one of the few schools in the local area that hasn't shut down over the past few decades, and it's one of the few schools that has never been tempted into academy status, that seedy compromise which so many schools fall into in which they lose their individual character and become a business or a hostel rather than a home for the children who enter their care.
It is a good school.
And in spite of my navel-gazing, I am happy here.
I look forward to returning in September, when I will have my own classroom and I will be a more rooted figure in the school. But I can't pretend that I'm not relieved to have reached the end of term and the end of the school year and, most notably, the end of the PGCE. I made it and I am about to cross the finish line. But I should not get ahead of myself, because there are a number of things that could still go wrong before we line the children up one last time and shepherd them out of the school gates and on to their summer holidays. They must be so excited. And I am too.
See you soon,
Benedict
March 30, 2015
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.
*I was always quite a quiet kid and always related to this the most*
*I was always quite a quiet kid and always related to this the most*
December 19, 2022
Poor Mr Quiet lives in Loudland. He goes shopping to get some food but none of the shopkeepers hear him so he goes away very sad & without food. One day he gets an invitation from Mr Happy to go for a visit. He eats his first decent meal in weeks & tells Mr happy all about his troubles. Mr Happy invites him to stay on with him & offers to get him a job. Mr Quiet says he is no good at a job as he is so quiet but Mr Happy gets him the perfect job at the local library & Mr Quiet is thrilled.
November 4, 2016
A quiet / unobtrusive Mr Man has problems as he lives in Loud Land.
I thought this was a sweet little story with good illustrations and as someone who isn’t loud or pushy it made me smile. This is a good book for young children.
I thought this was a sweet little story with good illustrations and as someone who isn’t loud or pushy it made me smile. This is a good book for young children.
November 1, 2017
I love the Mr. and Miss books! I remember reading them as a child and I love that I now get to share my love of these books with my students. I especially love Mr. Quiet because he's just so darn cute! It's also a great book to read in class when you'r trying to get your students to QUIET DOWN! ;)
June 13, 2007
It's just so sweet Mr.Quiet finally get out of being sad all the time.
October 30, 2007
he's so cute. i mean look at him! and when he goes hungry it hurts your soul. and the conclusion makes you believe in god.
November 20, 2012
From Janne
February 13, 2014
Le meilleur livre de tous les temps ? :D
January 16, 2013
this cute little book made me smile :)
July 7, 2013
Nice story indeed and how clever Mr. Happy is when he though of a great a wonderful job that suites Mr. Quiet perfectly ^_^
January 12, 2014
Another of my faves when i was small.
March 15, 2014
Excellent book, although it raises a lot if questions. Helped a great discussion about the use of quiet voices and loud voices!
January 26, 2015
It was good!
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