The Cleverest Person in the World is a story from the 1985 Annual.
Plot[]
Mr. Clever is the Cleverest Person in the World. At least, that's what Mr. Clever claimed he was. Mr. Clever lives in Cleverland: A place where chickens can read books, where worms drive buses, and elephants can tap dance. Mr. Clever believed there wasn't any question he couldn't answer or anything he couldn't do wrong. If only Mr. Clever's intelligence was as big as his ego, because then he would be right.
One day, out for a walk, Mr. Clever met Little Miss Twins. Mr. Clever bragged that he was "the Cleverest Person in the World" and the twins asked if he could prove it by telling them which twin was which. Now, while the twins may look identical in appearance, their personalities do differ. Unfortunately for Mr. Clever, he could not tell them apart beyond how they looked and was not made to be very clever to Little Miss Twin and Little Miss Twin. Mr. Clever soon met Mr. Bump after the latter bumped his fourth lamp post that morning. Mr. Clever bragged that he was "the Cleverest Person in the World" and Mr. Bump asked if he could prove it by telling him how he could stop bumping into things. Mr. Clever did not have an answer for Mr. Bump and was not made to be clever to Mr. Bump. Mr. Bump went on his way and bumped into a tree as he left.
All day, Mr. Clever couldn't answer any questions. He couldn't tell Mr. Bounce how to stop bouncing, he couldn't tell Mr. Dizzy how to be clever, and he couldn't tell Little Miss Scatterbrain how to get home to Buttercup Cottage. It wasn't a clever day and Mr. Clever wasn't feeling like "the Cleverest Person in the World" that day. Mr. Clever decided that he needed a holiday to rest his clever mind and hopefully come up with clever answers once he got back.
The next day, Mr. Clever packed his suitcase and went to catch a train to the seaside. But the train didn't come. In fact, it didn't come all week! Why hadn't the train come? Mr. Clever was waiting for a train...AT THE BUS STOP!! That wasn't very clever for the self-proclaimed "Cleverest Person in the World" now. Was it?
List of Characters[]
- Mr. Clever
- Little Miss Twins
- Little Miss Scatterbrain
- Mr. Daydream
- Mr. Bounce
- Mr. Dizzy
- Mr. Happy
- Little Miss Late
- The Clever Chicken
- The Clever Elephant