While the book was interesting, it did get the kids trying out some very dangerous exercises.

43 months - a friend gave us a copy of this one and O loved it. She also gained a very good grasp of what impossible means.

Genre: fantasy
Grade level: K-1
This is a simple little read with a great lesson. All of these books in this series have great little lessons to them. They portray friendship too. It’s a short read and I enjoyed it.

Mr. Impossible should be a super hero called Mr. Possible. He has amazing powers to do anything. He can do hard math equations, fly, walk up trees and anything he sets his mind too. He also has a house in the trees like Mr. Nonsense so that’s not impossible.

My nephew likes Mr. Impossible. It’s a good story and he too says he can do anything! They are a match.

This is probably one of my favorites so far. Never set limits on yourself.

Once again in a crime that surely is worth some level of extreme punishment I have gone out of order in the series and to book 25, it would almost be impossible to believe that could happen but there you go it did and hark, what manner of dad joke is this but it is about Mr Impossible. Aha he said I may have got you there with my weak pun - but regardless of all the above argy bargy this is another fine Mr Men book in the series, now to get out of this muddle and get back in order (yes you guessed it)

Read it outloud on a late summers evening with a group of close friends.

This wasn’t impossibly good, but it was still pretty terrific. I enjoyed it as an adult.

Nothing’s Impossible - just Highly Improbable
9 April 2018

I’m sure you have heard of the saying ‘nothing is impossible, you just aren’t trying hard enough’. In a way that is a very good motivational statement, and I’m not one who likes to go around telling people that they can’t do something because I’ve had people tell me that all my life, and in many ways it is just an excuse to stop people reaching their full potential. Then again, if you apply that logic to something like, say, walking through a wall, you are either going to end up with a really sore nose, or a gaping hole in the wall that is going to need fixing (and the tradie is probably going to charge you though the nose for it as well).

Honestly, there are impossible things, such as attempting to fly without the benefit of an aeroplane (or a hang glider for that matter). If I try throwing myself at the ground you can be assured that the one thing that I won’t do is miss it. Sure, the Wright Brothers proved that the idea of manned flight was actually not impossible, and spaceflight proved that what goes up doesn’t necessarily always come down, but there are limits to what we can do. Honestly, I’d love to be able to turn invisible, but one of the reasons that we can’t do that is probably because no good would come out of it. Well, maybe you can, if you had someway of bending light around yourself.

Actually, there is probably a difference between can’t and shouldn’t. Sure, we could rob a bank if we really wanted to, but unfortunately there happens to be laws that would come into effect if we decided to go down that road. Sure, we might be able to go into our bosses’ office and install a copy of Farcry 5 onto his computer, but he probably won’t be too happy (and that is also assuming that we are able to bypass all of the restrictions that IT happens to put on work computers to prevent us from doing such things - then again, nothing's impossible, just highly improbable). Sure, we could drag a lounge chair into the office, put our feet up on an ottoman, light a Cuban cigar, and drink a glass of 200 hundred year old scotch, but you might find yourself in your bosses’ office, and you can be assured that it won’t be to install a copy of Farcry 5 onto his computer.

Anyway, this is a pretty fun book, and doesn’t have the same morality that a number of the other books have. That probably has something to do with it being one of the earlier books. However, it does have the effect to challenging people’s perception of what is impossible and what isn’t. For a while there were maths equations that people believed couldn’t be done, until you introduced the concept of imaginary numbers. In the end it really comes down to whether we are willing to keep our blinkers on our eyes, or let others do that as well. In the end, it’s probably not a good thing to utter the words ‘it’s impossible’, just don’t try walking through that wall.

Mr. Impossible is the superhero of the Mr. Man world. He can leap (admittedly quite small) buildings in a single bound, turn invisible, fly by flapping his arms, solve incredibly difficult sums, walk up the sides of trees, stand on no hands and probably much more.

What does he do with all this power? Does he right wrongs? Fight crime? Solve world hunger?

No. He spends the day following a small child around.

My stranger danger sense is tingling!

Seriously, though, this is a really fun book; one of my favourites in the series.

My next book: The Sage and the Scarecrow

Another enjoyable family time. People should do this when not in isolation.

MR Impossible can do anything.

This book is on the Mount Rushmore of books. I cannot recommend highly enough the spiritual journey this book will take you on. Roger Hargreaves is a golden wordsmith who doubles as the worlds foremost story-spinning magician. Who could’ve woven a story so brilliant that it includes not only complex mathematics, but invisibility and the awe-inspiring ability to sleep on one’s head? You give me Shakespeare, I give you Hargreaves. You give me Tolkien, I give you Hargreaves. You give me Les Miserables, I give you Mr. Impossible.

Stop what you’re doing and buy this book. Steal it from someone if you have to. It changes lives. And, quite frankly, it could bring world peace. I implore you, let it guide your life, and you too may do complex mathematics like unto Mr. Impossible.