To celebrate the birthday of children’s author Roger Hargreaves, Google is featuring a doodle of Mr. Men scenes. The search engine has replaced it’s standard logo on its home page with several Mr. Men and Little Misses scenes, which change every time the refresh button is hit. The scenes include Little Miss Sunshine skipping, Mr. Bump being a cropper, Mr. Messy repainting the logo and Mr. Tickle playing a prank on the postman.
More information about Hargreaves can be found by clicking on the doodle. The British author and illustrator was born on May 9, 1935, and died on September 11, 1988. He created Mr. Men in 1971, when his son Adam asked what a tickle looked like. The original Mr. Men included Bump, Greedy, Happy, Messrs Tickle, Nosey and Sneeze. The characters debuted on television in 1975. Hargreaves then created the Little Misses in 1981.
There are now 44 Mr. Men, which now also appear in iPhone games. Adam recently sold the rights to Mr. Men for approximately $39.3 million (USD).
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Written by: Karen Benardello
