6 year old says... it's impossible to sledge down mount Everest from the very top to the very bottom.
40 year old says... THIS BOOK IS NOT CANON. It may as well be called "Mr. Cashing in on Roger Hargreaves" I will not dignify it with discussing the story.
It is a pretty decent story. I don't think I'm the target audience though. I think children will like it very much. It think it reads quite easily, probably can finish it in two minutes. However, I read it to my student so it took quite some time. I don't like how it asks us on which page the kid loses his spots though. I don't think it's very plausible to lose a cold like that.
I'd like to say nice but let's say COOL since this story is about Mr. Cool, by the way, Jack lost all red dots in his face right after his sliding with Mr. Cool from the top of Mount Everest.
Possibly the worst of the pile of "mr men" books that made it home from the library. Maybe it's just the awfully dated slang, but this one was just terrible.
There appears to be not a lot of love for Mr Cool and let's face it - he is one of the lesser lights in the Mr Men universe but you know its still Mr Men and there is still the great drawings and the ridiculous stories that you know and love so Mr Cool is still pretty cool to me. This is the penultimate book in the collection I found at the opp shop, but a friend has the whole set and next time I am staying at their place for a weekend lookout it will be a Mr Men marathon!!!