Roger Hargreaves

Many children tend to ask questions as they explore the world like the reason for the colour of the sky being blue or where did their baby cousin come from. Then, one day, a young boy asked his father "What does a tickle looks like?" The boy's name was Adam Hargreaves and he had just given his dad Roger the idea for the first ever Mr Men character. Shortly after being asked the question, Roger drew with his pen a round orange character that had long, rubbery arms and a blue bowler hat on his head. The character was Mr. Tickle, the first ever Mr Men character! With help from a friend in publishing named Jack Thurman, Roger Hargreaves was able to write more books and create more characters. The books made Roger successful and so wealthy that he was able to do it full time and even write a sister series called Little Miss that had female characters with similar plots but different to the men.

Each story had a shapely character whose name had to do with their personality or appearance and some stories had a character's personality changed by the events in their story but the change would only last for the remainder of a character's story. For example, a plum coloured bean shaped character called Mr. Snooty (originally called Mr. Uppity) learns to be polite after a goblin king places a spell on him that causes him to shrink every time he is rude but further appearances of the character has him back to being rude and not having any magical consequences. Some stories has a character embrace their attributes like Little Miss Sunshine who helps a miserable king to become happy! There are also stories that are day in the life scenarios like Mr. Tickle's story that sees him tickling anyone he comes across.
Much like the character of Mr Tall, Roger Hargreaves was a very tall man. Roger even based the character of Little Miss Twins after his twin daughters.
Even after his abrupt death from a stroke in 1988, Roger Hargreaves' name can be still seen on new Mr Men and Little Miss books that are being made to this day, this time by Roger's son Adam.