Mr. Topsy-Turvy
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| Mr. Topsy-Turvy | |
 Cover of Mr. Topsy-Turvy |
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| Author | Roger Hargreaves |
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| Illustrator | Roger Hargreaves |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Mr. Men |
| Genre(s) | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Fabbri |
| Publication date | August, 1972 |
| Pages | 40 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0853960171 |
| Preceded by | Mr. Messy |
| Followed by | Mr. Silly |
Mr. Topsy-Turvy is the ninth of the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves.
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[edit] Story
Mr. Topsy-Turvy does everything the wrong way around. One day he comes to the town where the reader lives. He rents a room in a hotel, speaking to the hotel manager the wrong way around, "Afternoon good, I'd room a like." The next day, he confuses the taxi driver with his backwards speaking, causing an accident, buying a pair of socks and putting them on his hands, then he disappears, but everything is still topsy-turvy. Everybody still speaks topsy-turvy, and the reader is asked to say something topsy-turvy.
Mr. Topsy-Turvy originated from a competition run by Roger Hargreaves to find a new Mr Men character and was an idea by Marc Penfold who created Mr Upside Down and a story in which the character lived in a backwards world. The idea did not win the competition but Roger Hargreaves liked the idea so much he wrote to Marc Penfold saying he would use the idea and thus Mr. Topsy-Turvy was born.
[edit] International publications & translations
Mr. Topsy-Turvy appears under the titles Monsieur A L'Envers (French), Don Alreves (Spanish), Unser Herr Kuddelmuddel (German), 顛倒先生 (Taiwan), 거꿀씨 (Korean), Mr. Popeth o chwith (Welsh), Meneer Opsekop/Meneertje Andersom (Dutch), Ο Κύριος Ανάποδος (Greek), Fætter Omvendt (Danish).
[edit] Title character other appearances
This is a list of other books that the title character has appeared in.
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