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Mr. Men #4
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Uh-oh! Mr. Nosey better watch out when he pokes his nose into other people's business! Full color.
40 pages, Paperback
First published August 10, 1971
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Roger Hargreaves
1,332 books368 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
A quirky humorous take of not putting your nose in where it isn't wanted!
The residents of Tiddletown are so fed up with Mr Nosey prying on their business that the devise a form of adversion therapy to try and teach him a lesson.
Mr. Nosey is definitely one of the most fun illustrated characters in the series and thankfully he soon stops snooping before anything to horrendous happens!
The residents of Tiddletown are so fed up with Mr Nosey prying on their business that the devise a form of adversion therapy to try and teach him a lesson.
Mr. Nosey is definitely one of the most fun illustrated characters in the series and thankfully he soon stops snooping before anything to horrendous happens!
March 16, 2018
My nephew had to have one more story tonight. It had to be MR. Nosey.
Mr. Nosey has to stick his nose in everyones business. The town has gets very tired of how nosey Mr. Nosey is. So they decide to teach him a lesson. Any time he gets curious something happens to his nose. On one hand Mr. Nosey is curious and being curious in life is important. On the other hand, you can butt into other people's business and that will tic people off.
These stories are so entertaining. They are pure fun. I'm sure my nephew will have me read many of these as he is Mr. Men crazy.
Mr. Nosey has to stick his nose in everyones business. The town has gets very tired of how nosey Mr. Nosey is. So they decide to teach him a lesson. Any time he gets curious something happens to his nose. On one hand Mr. Nosey is curious and being curious in life is important. On the other hand, you can butt into other people's business and that will tic people off.
These stories are so entertaining. They are pure fun. I'm sure my nephew will have me read many of these as he is Mr. Men crazy.
July 15, 2018
Mr. Nosey is extra nosey and apparently he has a big nose to show it.
If you are Greek and have watched Karagiozi (Καραγκιόζης) at least once in your lifetime, you will notice the physical resemblance of Mr. Nosey to Morfonios Hahahah
Anyway,before the book finishes Mr. Nosey will stop being so curious about everyone else's business and he will make new friends.
If you are Greek and have watched Karagiozi (Καραγκιόζης) at least once in your lifetime, you will notice the physical resemblance of Mr. Nosey to Morfonios Hahahah
Anyway,before the book finishes Mr. Nosey will stop being so curious about everyone else's business and he will make new friends.
April 23, 2023
Mr. Nosey hits all of the marks with what it intends to accomplish. The title character is designed to be able to demonstrate how nosey they are and it also makes it easier to illustrate the consequences that can happen when being nosey. There is also a moral that can be viewed in a figurative way. The way that Mr. Nosey is introduced is quite hysterical with how he demonstrates being nosey. The other citizens of Tiddletown feel they need to teach him a lesson and slowly but surely, they do. This book is not just funny and bear the charm of Hargreaves' Mr. Men books, but it also teaches critical thinking and how each of our actions come with consequences. This book hits each mark that it sets out to hit.
November 23, 2017
How could you not like the story of 'Mr Nosey'? A classic cautionary tale of over curiosity if ever there was one! Lots of fun as you would expect from one of the best of Roger Hargreaves 'Mr Men' series of books.
July 23, 2014
I love the Mr. Men books, but holy shit is this one messed up. Mr. Nosey is, well, all up in everybody's business. And, sure, that's annoying. But his neighbors all physically assault him in various ways to "teach him a lesson." They slap him in the nose with a wet paintbrush (the paint is painful to wash off, Mr. Nosey reports), pinch his nose with a clothes pin, hit him in the nose with a hammer, and then Mr. Nosey narrowly escapes getting his nose cut off with a saw. At the end Mr. Nosey stops being nosey and decides to be friends with these animals, which goes to show he's a very forgiving guy. I would totally press charges. But if you want to have a conversation with your kid about how just because someone is annoying doesn't mean you should physically assault them, then this book would be a good conversation starter.
January 7, 2014
Half of the charm of the Mr. Men is the illustration style. In the main, the Mr. Men are of pleasing shape and colour - they're solid, cheerful and they look like you could give any of them a nice big hug.
Despite the flat two dimensional nature of the drawings it's often easy to envisage the Mr. Men in three dimensions. Mr. Nosey, however, is an exception to that rule. With his impossibly long nose, the three dimensional imagining raises a slew of practical questions. How does Nosey look down to tie his shoelaces? How does he turn around in a narrow passage? How does he wash his face? He's the only one of the Mr. Men that I think I wouldn't be able to hug.
Mr. Nosey's physicality must be both a gift and a curse. One can only imagine that his olfactory powers are twenty to thirty times that of the other Mr. Men. His imposing conk must also be useful in a bar brawl - one can imagine him easily taking out four or five assailants with a vigorous shake of the head.
The curse of Mr. Nosey soon manifests itself. Our protagonist is the victim of bullying. The residents of Tiddletown come together and decide that Mr. Nosey is, well, too nosy, despite incredibly flimsy evidence. He is curious, granted, but curiosity is a sign of a sharp mind and a thirst for knowledge. Yet, perhaps fuelled by jealousy (is it coincidence that Mr. Nosey is green in colour? Why not blue, yellow or red?) a gang of local tradespeople embark on a series of organised and systematic assaults on Mr. Nosey. A washerwoman casually clips his nose with a clothes-peg, a painter throws paint in his face and a carpenter goes as far as hitting his nose with a hammer! This may all be read as harmless slapstick until the climax of the book veers into slasher movie territory as a farmer brandishes a saw at Nosey's over-sized organ, laughing maniacally as he does so.
But Mr. Nosey is beaten by this point. His sprit has been broken. His curiosity has been curbed and, despite showing the world a brave face, Mr. Nosey retreats rather than face more provocation. He ends the story as a timid shadow of his former self.
On the face of it, Mr. Nosey could be a story about nosiness with the moral "mind your own business", but the lasting impression and message is about bullying and people's seemingly inability to accept physicalities that step beyond the boundaries of the normal.
Perhaps Roger Hargreaves saw bullying as an unfortunate reality that children should be prepared for as early as possible. Whether you share this pessimistic world view or not, the story of Mr. Nosey is an affecting tale that leaves the sour aftertaste of pity and sadness.
Despite the flat two dimensional nature of the drawings it's often easy to envisage the Mr. Men in three dimensions. Mr. Nosey, however, is an exception to that rule. With his impossibly long nose, the three dimensional imagining raises a slew of practical questions. How does Nosey look down to tie his shoelaces? How does he turn around in a narrow passage? How does he wash his face? He's the only one of the Mr. Men that I think I wouldn't be able to hug.
Mr. Nosey's physicality must be both a gift and a curse. One can only imagine that his olfactory powers are twenty to thirty times that of the other Mr. Men. His imposing conk must also be useful in a bar brawl - one can imagine him easily taking out four or five assailants with a vigorous shake of the head.
The curse of Mr. Nosey soon manifests itself. Our protagonist is the victim of bullying. The residents of Tiddletown come together and decide that Mr. Nosey is, well, too nosy, despite incredibly flimsy evidence. He is curious, granted, but curiosity is a sign of a sharp mind and a thirst for knowledge. Yet, perhaps fuelled by jealousy (is it coincidence that Mr. Nosey is green in colour? Why not blue, yellow or red?) a gang of local tradespeople embark on a series of organised and systematic assaults on Mr. Nosey. A washerwoman casually clips his nose with a clothes-peg, a painter throws paint in his face and a carpenter goes as far as hitting his nose with a hammer! This may all be read as harmless slapstick until the climax of the book veers into slasher movie territory as a farmer brandishes a saw at Nosey's over-sized organ, laughing maniacally as he does so.
But Mr. Nosey is beaten by this point. His sprit has been broken. His curiosity has been curbed and, despite showing the world a brave face, Mr. Nosey retreats rather than face more provocation. He ends the story as a timid shadow of his former self.
On the face of it, Mr. Nosey could be a story about nosiness with the moral "mind your own business", but the lasting impression and message is about bullying and people's seemingly inability to accept physicalities that step beyond the boundaries of the normal.
Perhaps Roger Hargreaves saw bullying as an unfortunate reality that children should be prepared for as early as possible. Whether you share this pessimistic world view or not, the story of Mr. Nosey is an affecting tale that leaves the sour aftertaste of pity and sadness.
June 15, 2021
A cautionary tale about a nosey parker getting his comeuppance or a horrific story about a group of sadists being physically abusive to an unfortunate soul with an extreme physical deformity? YOU decide!
My next book: Wolverine: Red, White & Blood
My next book: Wolverine: Red, White & Blood
April 12, 2017
My 6 year old niece says Mr. Nosey is very nosey.
July 22, 2016
Story of a Sticky Beak
22 July 2016
Well, here I am once again sitting at thirty thousand feet in the air reading (or having just read) another Mr Men book. Okay, there are probably a lot of other things that I could be doing than reading a Mr Men book, such as watching season six of Game of Thrones (they have the first three episodes which I have yet to see), but I do have this urge to read another Mr Men book, and write a review while I am still on the plane (despite the fact that I won't be posting it until I have my feet firmly planted back on the ground, not that you can't get internet up here, it is just that I'm not really all that willing to fork out the $21.50 for access – anyway I get enough of the internet on the ground so I don't need to have it in the air as well).
Anyway, this book is about a guy that happens to be a bit of a sticky beak. Actually, that is an understatement – he is a lot of a sticky beak, to the point that he will open other people's letters and read other people's newspapers while they are reading them. Actually, it is difficult not reading other people's newspapers at times, especially when you see an interesting article on the front page (though the front page is probably the most sensationalist part of the newspaper, which tends to be a pretty sensationalist medium as it is). As for opening other letters, well that is illegal, not that people get letters any more, unless, of course, they are bills (and even then they are sent by email).
Which makes me wonder what Mr Nosey would be like today? Would he be a hacker? Probably not, not that guessing passwords is actually all that hard considering people use pretty shocking passwords as it is, to the point that your financial institutions have to force you to have complex passwords (though there are some places that go to such an extreme that it is nigh impossible to actually get onto the site because they have so many layers of security you might as well not bother accessing the information).
I seem to have gone off on a bit of a tangent, but then again I am probably quite well known for that. In any case Mr Nosey seems to be one of the earlier books because the later ones have many of the Mr Men making cameos, whereas with Mr Nosey you have our protagonist, who happens to be this green guy with a really big nose, while everybody else are just normal human beings who simply resent having Mr Nosey intrude into their lives. Actually, it isn't as if people live private lives in many parts of the world – this is a purely western phenomena where you ring before you go and visit somebody, or you even wait to be invited. In many places your friends simply rock up whenever, and everybody knows everybody else, and what everybody else does. In fact I'm sure we have all heard of the small town mentality where there are no secrets.
Which makes me think that Mr Nosey actually lives in the city where pretty much what you do is nobody else's business, with the exception, of course, of the NSA, but then again it could quite well be that Mr Nosey was once an NSA agent, retired, but couldn't get the whole sticking his nose into other people's business out of his system, until the town got together and offered him some encouragement.
22 July 2016
Well, here I am once again sitting at thirty thousand feet in the air reading (or having just read) another Mr Men book. Okay, there are probably a lot of other things that I could be doing than reading a Mr Men book, such as watching season six of Game of Thrones (they have the first three episodes which I have yet to see), but I do have this urge to read another Mr Men book, and write a review while I am still on the plane (despite the fact that I won't be posting it until I have my feet firmly planted back on the ground, not that you can't get internet up here, it is just that I'm not really all that willing to fork out the $21.50 for access – anyway I get enough of the internet on the ground so I don't need to have it in the air as well).
Anyway, this book is about a guy that happens to be a bit of a sticky beak. Actually, that is an understatement – he is a lot of a sticky beak, to the point that he will open other people's letters and read other people's newspapers while they are reading them. Actually, it is difficult not reading other people's newspapers at times, especially when you see an interesting article on the front page (though the front page is probably the most sensationalist part of the newspaper, which tends to be a pretty sensationalist medium as it is). As for opening other letters, well that is illegal, not that people get letters any more, unless, of course, they are bills (and even then they are sent by email).
Which makes me wonder what Mr Nosey would be like today? Would he be a hacker? Probably not, not that guessing passwords is actually all that hard considering people use pretty shocking passwords as it is, to the point that your financial institutions have to force you to have complex passwords (though there are some places that go to such an extreme that it is nigh impossible to actually get onto the site because they have so many layers of security you might as well not bother accessing the information).
I seem to have gone off on a bit of a tangent, but then again I am probably quite well known for that. In any case Mr Nosey seems to be one of the earlier books because the later ones have many of the Mr Men making cameos, whereas with Mr Nosey you have our protagonist, who happens to be this green guy with a really big nose, while everybody else are just normal human beings who simply resent having Mr Nosey intrude into their lives. Actually, it isn't as if people live private lives in many parts of the world – this is a purely western phenomena where you ring before you go and visit somebody, or you even wait to be invited. In many places your friends simply rock up whenever, and everybody knows everybody else, and what everybody else does. In fact I'm sure we have all heard of the small town mentality where there are no secrets.
Which makes me think that Mr Nosey actually lives in the city where pretty much what you do is nobody else's business, with the exception, of course, of the NSA, but then again it could quite well be that Mr Nosey was once an NSA agent, retired, but couldn't get the whole sticking his nose into other people's business out of his system, until the town got together and offered him some encouragement.
November 1, 2017
One of my favourites Mr men stories by Roger Hargreaves. The children and grandchildren loved these stories but I loved them just as much.
I was more excited than the kids when it came to bedtime.
Recommended.
I was more excited than the kids when it came to bedtime.
Recommended.
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.
September 28, 2022
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March 27, 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.
January 12, 2010
A story with a moral, as ever, but with a very humorous tone.
I think we all know people like Mr Nosey, who just can't help themselves. They have to know everything, and be on the inside of any gossip.
Having said that, I think some of the punishments dished out to Mr Nosey far outweigh his crimes. Anything requiring bandaging has to be a step too far surely, and both me and my children were left wondering exactly what Mr Herd would have done to Mr Nosey, had he been unable to resist...
Now time will tell if my kids can take the message on board and stop asking about things that don't concern them.
I think we all know people like Mr Nosey, who just can't help themselves. They have to know everything, and be on the inside of any gossip.
Having said that, I think some of the punishments dished out to Mr Nosey far outweigh his crimes. Anything requiring bandaging has to be a step too far surely, and both me and my children were left wondering exactly what Mr Herd would have done to Mr Nosey, had he been unable to resist...
Now time will tell if my kids can take the message on board and stop asking about things that don't concern them.
September 22, 2014
Mr. Nosey is a comical story with a different kind of narration and also with a good ending. The story talks about a man who lived in a tall, thin, funny house in Tiddletown. It also explains about his curiosity to know about everything which is happening around him.
The title itself clearly explains about what we are going to read about. Use of simple vocabulary ensures the understanding of the children. The ending of the story has a moral that the behaviour of poking the nose in others' issues will get into trouble. The book is more suitable for age group 5 - 7. It is also suitable to encourage creative writing among the children.
The title itself clearly explains about what we are going to read about. Use of simple vocabulary ensures the understanding of the children. The ending of the story has a moral that the behaviour of poking the nose in others' issues will get into trouble. The book is more suitable for age group 5 - 7. It is also suitable to encourage creative writing among the children.
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.
August 28, 2017
I thought that this was a great book. The town didn't appreciate Mr Nosey being so nosey, so they let him know this by doing things to him that would only happen to someone who was being nosey. As a result, he learnt to not be so nosey, and so the people of the town actually started to like him and be his friend. I think that this book effectively teaches children to not be too nosey in daily life and respect people's right to privacy.
January 10, 2010
I have just read this book to two of my grandchildren ages 5 and 4 and we all loved it. I was not aware of this group of Mr. and Miss books, but will definitely look for more. This is a short quick childrens' book about someone who is very nosey and how the people in his town cure him of his nosiness.
July 28, 2011
When his peers tire of his constant interference in their affairs Mr Nosey is forced to attend some intensive Gestalt psychotherapy and is miraculously cured. Well, ok, actually he gets his nose pinched, and hit with hammers, and stuff. Hidden message: violence is good. Just the ticket for impressionable kids.
December 28, 2014
The 'Mr Men' and 'Little Miss' books are so simple yet so effective. I love the way that all the characters are linked and how characters pop up in other stories!
The books are great for encouraging young children to read because they are interesting, have a variety of simple language and are short enough that young children don't get bored! Children love collecting all the characters too.
The books are great for encouraging young children to read because they are interesting, have a variety of simple language and are short enough that young children don't get bored! Children love collecting all the characters too.
July 15, 2012
What I like most about Mr. Men stories is their beautiful messages to children, in each there's a good thing to learn and bad thing to beware of. I like this story and my young sisters liked it as well.
December 19, 2022
They say that Curiosity leads to Trouble so It's quite nice in that the story morally shows that you shouldn't poke your nose into other people's business. Poor Mr Nosey does end up with an injury to the nose for his curiosity- but he does learn an important lesson.
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July 31, 2017
Truly Mr Nosey seems more curious than nosey. And his neighbors appear sadistic, bashing him in the face with a hammer and trying to ambush him in the woods with a saw. Poor Mr. Nosey needs new neighbors...
April 23, 2008
Fun read-aloud series - with a moral.
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May 30, 2008Our version of this book is a tiny, beat-up one from when mommy was little. She was giggling more than I was at all the trouble Mr. Nosey got himself into!
June 16, 2008
Poking your nose in where it's not wanted will lead to a painful nose. Just ask Mr. Nosey.
October 21, 2011
Absolutely hilarious and Henry couldn't wait to see what Mr Nosey would find.
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