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Mr. Bliss is delightfully amusing, both the book and the title character himself. He gets himself into a series of farcical scrapes involving his new car, three thuggish teddy bears, four obese brothers, some cabbages and some bananas. Mr. Bliss is a frightful coward throughout, not at all the hero you might expect, which I think would make him a rather sympathetic character for younger children. He does stand up for himself in the end, albeit in a somewhat passive/aggressive way. Oh, and watch
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Witty, funny, and silly 🥰
The story is about a misadventure Mr Bliss and his neighbors get into after Mr Bliss buys a car.
The backbone of the story, to me, is the illustrations: a lot of the story consists of him explaining what the pictures are supposed to depict. If you've seen other illustrations by Mr Tolkien, you may have an idea of what these look like: the stylized, almost cartoonish, illustrations drawn in perspective. The colors are pale, like they're drawn in watercolor ink. They're very pretty and he puts in ...more
The backbone of the story, to me, is the illustrations: a lot of the story consists of him explaining what the pictures are supposed to depict. If you've seen other illustrations by Mr Tolkien, you may have an idea of what these look like: the stylized, almost cartoonish, illustrations drawn in perspective. The colors are pale, like they're drawn in watercolor ink. They're very pretty and he puts in ...more
100 stars if I could give them!
Feb 04, 2012
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