Mr Men by Roger Hargreaves
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the kids books Mr Men and Little Miss.
Mr
Men are a series of books written and illustrated by English Author
Roger Hargreaves and first published in 1971 by Reed Elsevier for the
UK and Price Stern Sloan for the US. Various other publishers such as
Harper-Collins, the Egmont Group, Putnam Publishing group and Penguin
Random house have also helped publish over the the past 52 years. Mr
Men were followed by Little Miss in 1981 and a series following
animal characters called Timbuctoo in 1978. Each character in the
series are introduced with a single dominant character trait to
convey a simple moral lesson
(AS of the writing and publishing of
this blog) There are currently 92 Mr Men and Little Miss books in
circulation with 100 million copies being sold worldwide across 28
countries and written in 20 languages.
Mr Men and Little Miss ended up being produced as a TV show for kids during the 90's, effectively a French produced cartoon by Marina Productions. In the UK, Mr Men being narrated by Gordon Peters aired for 2 years from September 1995 to September 1997 on ITV with reruns shown on Nickelodeon, Nick JR and Channel 5's Milkshake and within France it was shown on France 3.
THE AUTHOR
Charles Roger Hargreaves was born to parents Alfred Reginald Hargreaves and Ethel Mary Hargreaves on May 9th 1935 in a private hospital at 201 Bath Road, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire UK. Hargreaves would grow up on Halifax Road in Hartshead Moor, Cleckheaton of which there is now a commemorative blue plaque on the building.
In 1971 whilst working as a creative director at a London Firm, Hargreaves wrote the first Mr Men book, Mr Tickle. After the initial difficulty in finding a publisher, the books became an instant success selling a million copies in three years.
Hargreaves and his family lived in Guernsey between 1975 and 1982, moving and settling at Sussex House Farm near Cowden, Kent not long afterwards. Following a stroke Roger Hargreaves died on September 11th 1988 at the age of 53 in the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Royal Tumbridge Wells.
Adam Hargreaves (Born on June 18th 1963), the son of Roger Hargreaves and supposed inspiration for the first book Mr Tickle, followed his fathers footsteps into writing and illustration and when his father had passed, Adam stepped up and continued writing for the Mr Men and Little Miss series.
In April 2004, Roger Hargreaves widow Christine sold the rights to the Mr Men character to Chorion a UK based Entertainment group for 28 Million pounds. In 2011 Chiron sold Mr Men and its associated merchandise business to Japan based business Sanrio.
On March 4th 2021, Roger Hargreaves was posthumously awarded a gold Blue Peter Badge.
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