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He's one wacky guy! He sees things a little differently from everyone else-backwards!

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace… When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic…

You're not Mia Thermopolis any more, honey,' Dad said. I raised my head. 'I'm not?' I said, blinking. 'Then who am I?' He went, kind of sadly, 'You're Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Princess of Genovia.'

Mr. Dizzy always gets things confused until one day he happens upon a wishing well, and his dearest wish comes true!

He's always pulling naughty pranks until he meets up with a wise old Wizard and gets a taste of his own medicine!

Coldland is a country somewhere near the North Pole. The weather there is winter all the time. When it isn't snowing it's freezing and when it isn't freezing it's snowing. Everybody who lives in Coldland always has a cold. You can tell if somebody lives in Coldland because everybody there has a red nose. Even elephants! Join Mr. Sneeze on his journey to find a cure for the sneezes and bring the warm sun to the country of Coldland. Enjoy this special edition larger size of then classic Mr. Men books with your children.

This carefully researched and well-written book disproves most of the current management hype-from the cult of the superhuman CEO to the cult of IT to the acquisitions and merger mania. It will not enable mediocrity to become competence. But it should enable competence to become excellence.