Over 100 million Mr. Men
books by author Roger Hargreaves have been
sold worldwide and have been translated into
over 15 different languages. Mr. Tickle was
the first Mr. Men character in 1971. Roger
Hargreaves’s son Adam asked him what a
tickle looked like and he drew a little
orange person with extraordinary long arms,
a big toothy grin and a little blue hat… and
the rest is history.