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Little Miss Books #32
Little Miss Bad
Little Miss Bad is not good. Far from it. In fact, about as far as you can get, which is a long way! Can Little Miss Sunshine trick Little Miss Bad into confessing all her wrongdoings?
34 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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About the author
Adam Hargreaves
346 books46 followersAdam Hargreaves is an English author and illustrator. The son of Roger Hargreaves, he continues his father's popular Mr. Men series of children's books. Hargreaves also served as inspiration for the series. When at the age of six he asked his father "What does a tickle look like?", Roger used that question to create the first book, Mr. Tickle.
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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.
January 14, 2017
I did not like this book because I do not like being bad. I also did not like this book because Little Miss Bad was very bad.
August 3, 2018
Pretty fun stuff, even if I am a little old for it now.
January 28, 2024
Little miss bad x little miss sunshine enemies to lovers?
July 19, 2017
I kind of feel bad for Little Miss Bad, but then again she was really naughty, playing all those tricks on the others. She really did need to learn a lesson. But what are the chances that it sticks?
September 9, 2012
The story starts with little Miss Bad looking back on her week, at all the bad things that had happened throughout the week. Things such as; Mr Forgetful's car been swan in half , Mr Uppity’s tennis racquet been swapped for spaghetti and the cream in Mr Greedy’s cream bun being swapped for toothpaste. Lots of people were unhappy they wanted to know was who was responsible for all the mischief.
So Little Miss Sunshine thinks up a plan to catch the person responsible. She creates a fake competition to discover the most mischievous, naughty or bad trick played in the last week, whereby the winner would be rewarded with a free holiday. Once little Miss Bad hears of the competition she enters it, and is overjoyed as she believes she has already won.
The competition day approaches and everyone turns up, Little Miss Sunshine explains the rules and states that the first candidate will be Little Miss Bad. Who eagerly approaches the stage and starts telling all her tricks, from the beginning of the week to the day before the competition. Little Miss Bad is so engrossed in telling her story that she fails to realise that the crowd is not cheering her on and that she has being tricked into confessing.
As a child I particularly enjoyed reading these books as I loved the names of the Mr Men and I loved the way in each story someone always got taught a lesson . I used to be fascinated with the pictures and the colours on the pages. In my opinion an appropriate age range would be nursery, because although there are nice bright pictures these books are a little bit wordy so an adult would need to read it to the child. They would be good books to read to a nursery class as the children will be able to identify the various different Mr men and also broaden their vocabulary.
So Little Miss Sunshine thinks up a plan to catch the person responsible. She creates a fake competition to discover the most mischievous, naughty or bad trick played in the last week, whereby the winner would be rewarded with a free holiday. Once little Miss Bad hears of the competition she enters it, and is overjoyed as she believes she has already won.
The competition day approaches and everyone turns up, Little Miss Sunshine explains the rules and states that the first candidate will be Little Miss Bad. Who eagerly approaches the stage and starts telling all her tricks, from the beginning of the week to the day before the competition. Little Miss Bad is so engrossed in telling her story that she fails to realise that the crowd is not cheering her on and that she has being tricked into confessing.
As a child I particularly enjoyed reading these books as I loved the names of the Mr Men and I loved the way in each story someone always got taught a lesson . I used to be fascinated with the pictures and the colours on the pages. In my opinion an appropriate age range would be nursery, because although there are nice bright pictures these books are a little bit wordy so an adult would need to read it to the child. They would be good books to read to a nursery class as the children will be able to identify the various different Mr men and also broaden their vocabulary.
August 21, 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.
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.
June 25, 2013
Playing around with friend and making jokes etc is very nice thing to do, but causing them troubles and problems is definitely unacceptable, still I enjoy this story and happy that Little Miss Bad learned her lesson.
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September 21, 2007French Little Miss book that my friend got from Germany when she was over there.
December 9, 2018
This book had me giggling! Yes, “Little Miss Bad” is very bad. The things she does to the people in her town. I could never imagine these horrible things, but SHE DOES THEM! These acts are not what made me give this a five magical ball rating though, it was how she ultimately gets caught for doing all these heinous acts. She tells on herself. It goes deeper than that, but I don’t want to spoil the fun of this book. The ending also got a huge chuckle from me and reminded me that Hargreaves created so many characters that oftentimes have similar characteristics at their base. This is another one that the artwork was wonderful and definitely something I can see a child being shown by their parents. I can just see a small child climbing into their parents lap to be read this and the parent smiling as they do. It definitely has that warm fuzzy feel about it. The thing that I enjoyed about this book over the last was that there was a moral in this one and it is very much there at the end of the book. It doesn’t take itself that seriously though, which was also nice. This would definitely be one that I would recommend reading near the beginning of your journey into the “Little Miss” series because it will get you chuckling.
November 16, 2018
Little Miss Bad, she is known for being very naughty and makes a lot of mischiefs. One day, she messed with the wrong person and the person who got caught did a tournament for the person who can do the worst things, of course, she easily won. When she explained what she did, it was the exact same from what her neighbors are looking the culprit for. She got punished by being forced to clean up her mess. After she learnt her lesson, she stopped being such a bad person, she changed after learning her lesson. She now looks back and thinks she should be more smart next time.
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February 3, 2022
Charmless book.
Story too convoluted for a child to understand and somewhat mean spirited.
Stilted prose makes me think the author used a thesaurus from the 1940's to make it sound authentic.
Not sure what age group this is aimed at but it's not easy to read aloud.
The age group that wants these book read out to them won't understand that sentence.
Story too convoluted for a child to understand and somewhat mean spirited.
Stilted prose makes me think the author used a thesaurus from the 1940's to make it sound authentic.
Not sure what age group this is aimed at but it's not easy to read aloud.
"But how to catch Little Miss Bad, that was the question Little Miss Sunshine was turning around in her head".
The age group that wants these book read out to them won't understand that sentence.
March 24, 2020
Little Miss Sunshine tricks Little Miss Bad into admitting to all the bad things she did during the past week.
Little Miss Bad has been on quite the spree. Her bad deeds range from pranks to vandalism to serious property damage, and she is extremely proud of herself. Luckily, Little Miss Sunshine thinks up a plan to put a stop the Little Miss Brad’s reign of havoc and make her pay recompense.
Little Miss Bad has been on quite the spree. Her bad deeds range from pranks to vandalism to serious property damage, and she is extremely proud of herself. Luckily, Little Miss Sunshine thinks up a plan to put a stop the Little Miss Brad’s reign of havoc and make her pay recompense.
February 8, 2020
Another great read from Hargreaves as the Little Miss series is not far from over, little miss bad may be a little bad, but her book is. more than a little good, Great fun, Alex won't like this will you?
Little Miss #32
Little Miss #32
February 18, 2021
Little miss bad got covered with ink because of little miss splendid who is in a book which you might read or no. For instance, little miss slow’s tennis rocket was replaced with spaghetti really. She flooded little miss neat’s house and she made cracks on mr worry’s house
August 29, 2019
We meet the first villain in the series. Really?
September 8, 2019
What a cheeky way to catch someone out. Very clever - and not an ounce of sympathy for Little Miss Bad.
October 16, 2021
Re-read
Loved the ending!
Loved the ending!
January 12, 2022
Hey practical jokes were a bit on the extreme side.
January 5, 2023
القرف المقدس حيث أنا اللعنة
August 2, 2023
Ελληνικός Τίτλος: Η κυρία Ενοχλητική από τις εκδόσεις Χάρτινη Πόλη
December 13, 2023
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Little Miss series number 32
Little Miss series number 32
January 28, 2024
Amazing prose. Exclusively for baddies.
April 29, 2019
Over and over and over again.... I read these stories to my first daughter and then to my second daughter.
They loved them... they laughed... i love my daughters... i laughed with them....that was more than enough for me.
They loved them... they laughed... i love my daughters... i laughed with them....that was more than enough for me.
April 27, 2019
Little Miss Bad is a very nasty character. Glad she got her comeuppance!
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