Google is celebrating what would have been the 76th birthday of children’s author Roger Hargreaves with a series of homepage doodles depicting characters from his popular Mr. Men and Little Miss books.
Google doodlers have crafted more than a dozen versions of the company’s logo featuring the cartoon characters from Hargreaves’ books, from Little Miss and Mr. Tickle to Mr. Happy and Mr. Messy.
Hargreaves’ career as a children’s book author started in 1971 when his young son asked him, “What does a tickle look like?” To explain, Hargreaves created Mr. Tickle, a small orange man with a big smile, tiny blue hat, and very long arms. That spawned five other characters—Mr. Greedy, Mr. Nosey, Mr. Happy, Mr. Bump, and Mr. Sneeze—the books for which were first published on August 10, 1971.
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