Mr. Men his son, Adam, who had asked him what a tickle looked like. Hargreaves responded with a round, orange figure with long, bendy arms. Over the course of the 1970s Roger Hargreaves produced 38 more Mr. Men in addition to Mr. Tickle, as well as producing a number of other Mr. Men books. In the 1980s Roger Hargreaves began the Little Miss series with 'Little Miss Bossy' and he produced 21 characters and books. As well as this two special Mr. Men stories were created in 1985 'Mr. Nobody' and 'Mr. Christmas'. Both of these have been rereleased in later years.
Adam Hargreaves Adam Hargreaves Adam Hargreaves (born 1963) is an English author and illustrator living in East Sussex. The son of Roger Hargreaves, he continues his father's popular "Mr. Men" series of children's books. The younger Hargreaves also served as inspiration for the series. When at the age of six he asked his father "What does a tickle look like?", Roger used that question to create the first book, Mr. Tickle, which was published in 1971. Hargreaves took over the "Mr. Men" and "Little Miss" cartoon empire after his father's death in 1988, despite initially thinking the series "embarrassing" and "a bit