"of trial and error,"" even having completed a foundation course at Brighton Art College. He said that as he taught himself to draw like his father he started to have a real respect for what he had done. He understood his father's sense of humour and that what made the books and the characters so successful is that they are about universal human emotions and the books have a strong sense of morality. In 2004 the family sold the rights to the ""Mr. Men"" to entertainment group Chorion for £28 million, although Hargreaves remains the public face of the franchise"
"years. In 1974 the books spawned a BBC animated television series, narrated by Arthur Lowe. A second series the following year saw newer titles transmitted in double bill format with those from the first series. By 1976, Hargreaves had quit his day job. In 1981 the Little Miss series of books was launched, and in 1983 it also was made into a television series, narrated by Pauline Collins, and her husband John Alderton. Although Hargreaves wrote many other children's stories—including the Timbuctoo series of 25 books, John Mouse and the Roundy and Squarey books—he is best known for his 46"
"has created several commercial characters such as Mr. Glug for Evian water and Mr. First for money transfer company World First. In 2017, Adam Hargreaves launched a new series of books featuring characters from the BBC science fiction series, ""Doctor Who"", with each book focusing on a different incarnation of the show's titular character. Each book contains a title page, 16 to 18 text pages and 15 to 17 colour illustrations drawn with a Magic Marker. Where the name of the title Mr. Men character is too long to fit on the cover horizontally, instead of being in a reduced"
"he is voiced by Jeff Stewart and Rob Rackstraw. Mr. Tickle Mr. Tickle is the first book in the ""Mr. Men"" series by Roger Hargreaves, published 10 August 1971. The story was originally based on a question by his son, Adam Hargreaves, who asked what a tickle would look like. Mr. Tickle's story begins with him in bed and making himself breakfast without getting up because of his ""extraordinarily long arms"". He then decides that it is a tickling sort of day and thus journeys around town tickling people – a teacher, a policeman, a greengrocer, a child, a station"
"Timbuctoo Timbuctoo is a series of 26 children's books, written and illustrated by Roger Hargreaves, better known for his ""Mr Men"" series. It was published from 1978–79. The books tell the stories of a group of animals, each of whom is named after the sound that their particular animal makes. An animated series (produced by Flicks Films for Cosgrove Hall Films) of ""Timbuctoo"" was shown on CITV in the 1990s, narrated by Ronnie Corbett. The original set of 25 books named after their main character were published in 1979 and 1980, along with two Timbuctoo Annuals. A further set of"
"Mr. Tickle Mr. Tickle is the first book in the ""Mr. Men"" series by Roger Hargreaves, published 10 August 1971. The story was originally based on a question by his son, Adam Hargreaves, who asked what a tickle would look like. Mr. Tickle's story begins with him in bed and making himself breakfast without getting up because of his ""extraordinarily long arms"". He then decides that it is a tickling sort of day and thus journeys around town tickling people – a teacher, a policeman, a greengrocer, a child, a station guard, a pilot, a doctor, a butcher and a"
"series of six tie-in books by Jimmy Hibbert, Robin Kingsland and Rod Green, published by HarperCollins Publishers and Boxtree; they featured Cosgrove Hall's short-lived triangular logo on their front covers (which was a reference to Thames Television's final one, introduced in 1990), and entitled ""Fu Man's Choo Choo"", ""The Big Nap"", ""Out to Lunch"", ""The Great Golden Turnip Caper"", ""The Great Train Robbery"", and ""Where Beagles Dare"". The two HarperCollins-published hardback books by Hibbert were also released as audio cassettes, read by Hibbert himself as narrator and Victor - but Peter Sallis filled in for David Jason as Hugo and"
"Roger Hargreaves died in 1988 and his son Adam was to take over the franchise. When these books were released in the United States, several terms were changed to their American terms. In France, illustrator Colette David and writers Viviane Cohen and Evelyne Lallemand produced a number of new characters that were not released anywhere else in the world. The characters 'Mr. Crosspatch', 'Mr. No', 'Little Miss Yes', 'Little Miss All-Goes-Well', 'Little Miss Loud', 'Little Miss Careful', 'Little Miss Brilliant', 'Little Miss Busy-Body', 'Little Miss Vain', 'Little Miss Prim', and 'Little Miss Selfish' were only released in France and Greece"
"featuring her character being published; it was sold only in W H Smith branches, with a portion of the proceeds going to a charity supporting children with leukaemia. In 2003 Adam created three new Mr. Men characters and three new Little Miss characters. He also created 'Little Miss Christmas' to accompany 'Mr. Christmas' after this book was rereleased with new illustrations. In April 2004, Hargreaves' widow Christine sold the rights to the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters to UK entertainment group Chorion for £28 million. In 2006, to celebrate 35 years of Mr. Men and 25 years of Little"
"H. A. Hargreaves Henry A. Hargreaves, Ph.D. (1928-2017) was a prolific Canadian science fiction writer. Originally from Bronx, N.Y., Hargreaves was a pioneer of Canadian short fiction as well as having an academic career that culminated with him retiring as a professor emeritus of English Literature at the University of Alberta. His short fiction was collected in one of Canadian science fiction's earliest anthologies: ""North By 2000"", published in 1975 and was re-issued as ""North by 2000+"" in 2012 with additional material, with such short stories as """"Fore"" - Eight - Sixteen"", ""In His Moccasins"", ""Infinite Variation"", and ""2020 Vision."""
"Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further ""research"" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger"
"The first four books of the Serendipity Series were released in 1974. They are: ""Serendipity"", ""The Dream Tree"", ""Wheedle on the Needle"", and ""The Muffin Muncher"". Cosgrove merged Serendipity Press with the publishing company, Price/Stern/Sloan (now part of Penguin Random House) in 1978 so that Cosgrove could focus on writing. Cosgrove decided to re-edit his earlier books, which have been republished with the changes. To date, there are 70 books in the series, written from the kindergarten to grade three levels. The animals in the Serendipity series include bears, cats, dogs, horses, squirrels, rabbits, and mythical creatures such as unicorns,"
"film ""Storm Center"", starring Bette Davis, and the book of the film ""The Bold and the Brave"", starring Mickey Rooney. In the 1970s he continued to write, producing another five books including the popular ""Glasshouse Gang"" series. A short story, ""Something in the Air"", one of two commissioned in 1970 by Philip Harbottle, editor of the short-lived science fiction magazine, ""Vision of Tomorrow"", was published in ""Fantasy Adventures No 4"", edited by Philip Harbottle. A number of his early books, originally written under pseudonyms, have been republished since 2003, some now under his own name, in both hard copy and"
"librarian, wrote the first Henry Huggins book in 1950, in response to the boys in her library searching for books ""about boys like us."" Cleary later launched a new series about one of the supporting characters, Ramona Quimby. The Ramona series ultimately surpassed the Henry Huggins series in popularity. Henry appeared only rarely in the Ramona series, as a supporting character. He was portrayed by Hutch Dano in the movie ""Ramona and Beezus"". Henry Huggins Henry Huggins is a character appearing in a series of children's literature novels by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Louis Darling, and first appearing in ""Henry"
"Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), April, May and June (1953), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), Magica de Spell (1961), and John D. Rockerduck (1961). Many of Taliaferro's characters made the move to Barks' world as well, including Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Barks placed Donald in both domestic and adventure scenarios, and Uncle Scrooge became one of his favorite characters to pair up with Donald. Scrooge's popularity grew, and by 1952, the character had a comic book of his own. At this point, Barks concentrated his major efforts on the Scrooge stories, and Donald's appearances became more focused"
"whereas four Mr. Men characters and nine Little Miss characters were also published in English and can be seen listed below as being released in 1990. After his father's death, Adam Hargreaves took over the Mr. Men. He now draws the characters and writes new stories for them. A competition was held in the British ""Sunday Times"" newspaper for children to submit their own Mr. Men character for inclusion in a limited edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the series. ""Mr. Cheeky"", submitted by then eight-year-old Gemma Almond, was selected as the winning entry. Gemma's creation led to a book"
"the text but never stated. Many of Higgins's works focus on the criminal element and the cops who pursue them in and around Boston. His four Jerry Kennedy books form a connected series. Characters important in some of his novels often are mentioned in others, usually in passing but significant references, as in ""Trust"", ""Outlaws"", ""Bomber's Law"" and the Kennedy books.He is best remembered for his bestselling 1970 novel ""The Friends of Eddie Coyle"", which was adapted into a 1973 film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Higgins once wrote: ""The success of ""The Friends of Eddie Coyle"" was termed"
"been mentioned as a major influence by other authors, including Laurie Halse Anderson, Judy Blume, Lauren Myracle, and Jon Scieszka. † Henry Huggins series (1950–1964) ‡ Ramona series (1955–1999) Beverly Cleary Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; born April 12, 1916) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful living authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of Cleary's best known characters are Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse. The majority of"
"and humanist John Lovejoy Elliot. He notes that the book, ""A Ministry to Man"", was published in 1959, a year before ""Mockingbird."" Atticus Finch Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel ""Go Set a Watchman"", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy ""Jem"" Finch and Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa"
"eleven years. Following the success of his Oakes books, Gardner created new characters: Derek Torry—a Scotland Yard inspector of Italian descent—and Herbie Kruger, the latter of which appeared in a series of novels published simultaneously with his Bond works. In the mid-1970s Gardner also wrote the first of three novels using the character of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series, the last of which was published posthumously. The third of this series, titled simply ""Moriarty"", was delayed due to a dispute with the publisher, but was finally released shortly after his death. Erik Lee Preminger bought the film rights"
"(1957) concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel; ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"" (1961), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future, to see the various fates that befall its characters. Anthony Burgess is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1962), set in the not-too-distant future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. One of Penguin Books' most successful publications in the"
"characters whose adventures unfolded over multiple books. Exceptions include Max Stafford (a security consultant featured in ""Flyaway"" and ""Windfall)"", Slade (a spy who appeared in ""Running Blind"" and ""The Freedom Trap""), Metcalfe (the smuggler/mercenary in ""The Golden Keel"" and ""The Spoilers""). His work yielded five relatively unremarkable adaptations: ""The Freedom Trap"" (1971), released in 1973 as ""The Mackintosh Man"" by Warner Brothers, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda; ""Running Blind"", adapted for television by the BBC in 1979; ""Landslide"", made for television in 1992; ""The Vivero Letter"", filmed in 1998; and ""The Enemy"", starring Roger"
"outlived his son. In the series ""The Leatherstocking Tales"" by James Fenimore Cooper, Chingachgook is the best friend and companion of the main character Natty Bumppo, aka Hawkeye. He appears in The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Pioneers. He is characterized by his skills as a warrior and forester, his bravery, his wisdom, and his pride for his tribe. Chingachgook is said to have been modeled after a real-life wandering Mohican basket maker and hunter named Captain John. The fictional character, occasionally called John Mohegan in the series, was an idealized embodiment of the traditional"
"narrative in his original novels, particularly the earlier (1960-1970) standalone works, such as ""The Empty Quarter"", ""Angel's Flight"", ""The Good Guy"" and ""The Amphorae Pirates"". Cameron also created the character Longarm — whose adventures, starting in the late 1970s, pretty much defined the then-new sex-and-sagebrush subgenre of the ""adult"" Western — under the house name ""Tabor Evans"" and wrote at least 52 of the more-than-400 books in the series. He wrote the Renegade series as ""Ramsay Thorne"", and the Stringer series under his own name. He also wrote at least one Easy Company novel as ""John Wesley Howard"", In 2004,"
"and Pascoe"", and ""Vanity Fair"" (1987). A series of ""Pobol Y Cwm"" in the early 1970s, ""Doctors"", ""Dangerfield"", ""Trainer"", ""Kinsey"", ""Triangle"", ""Doctor Who"" serial ""Horror of Fang Rock"" in 1977, ""All Creatures Great and Small"", ""Howards' Way"", ""Juliet Bravo"", ""This Life"", ""The Brothers"" starring Jean Anderson, and ""Spy Trap"". Pebble Mill produced ""Specials"" a short series about a group of Special Police Officers in a fictional Midlands Town. and the anthology series ""The Afternoon Play"". Children's content includes ""Rentaghost"", one series of ""Hartbeat"" with Tony Hart, its replacement ""SMart"", ""The Adventure Game"", and ""Bodger & Badger"". There were also editions"
"Misplaced Hound"". In Robert A. Heinlein's ""The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"" (1966), one of the characters is a computer, a model ""HOLMES IV"", which adopts the name Mycroft, after Sherlock Holmes' brother. Julian Symons created a character named Sheridan Haynes, an actor immersed in the role of Holmes for an epic project to adapt the entire canon for television (almost ten years before Jeremy Brett took up a similar challenge), in the 1975 novel ""A Three Pipe Problem"". Haynes finds himself confusing his own identity with Holmes', and becomes involved in a mystery. The character returned for a 1988"
"and Dale Wilkins. Josephine Chase also penned the Khaki Boys series (1918-1920) under the pseudonym Captain Gordon Bates. The Harlowe series follows the life of its heroine more or less chronologically from high school through college and beyond. Like Flower's other heroine, Grace is a role-model, already a ""paragon when her story begins"". Books in the Grace Harlowe series include at least the following books, all of which are available through Project Gutenberg: ""Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School; The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls"" (1910)<br> ""Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School; The Record of the"
"Mr. McGregor Mr. Michael McGregor is a fictional character in three children's books by author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. He is an elderly, serio-comic villain of Scots background intent upon keeping hungry rabbits out of his vegetable garden and sometimes catching them to put them in a pie and eat them. Potter denied the character was based on a real person but her mentor in mycology, Charles McIntosh, may have been the tizi for McGregor's physical appearance and her landlord in 1893, Atholl McGregor, may have been the source for the character's name. Mr. McGregor appeared in two episodes of"
"Steele, the Crazy Scientist, the Monster Animals: White Spider, White Rat, Green Frog Minifigs: Frank Rock, Ann Lee, 3 Ghosts Minifigs: Doctor Rodney Rathbone, Jack McHammer, Lord Vampyre, Lord Vampyre's Bride, 2 Manbats, Skeleton Animals: White Spider, White Rat, 2 Black Bats, Green Frog Minifigs: Lord Vampyre, Lord Vampyre's Bride, the Zombie Chef, the Zombie Butler, 2 Ghosts Animals: Black Spider, Black Bat, Green Snake Minifigs: the Zombie Driver Minifigs: the Ghost Minifigs: the Zombie Driver Animals: White Spider Minifigures: Skeleton Animals: White Spider, Black Bat Also two books by Simon Beecroft based on the theme were published by DK,"
"commercial publishers, this was an unfashionable approach to take, with arguably a great commercial cost as Rathbone went his own way and refused to seek or accept any label or badge of identification, which might increase sales but confine his activities as a writer. Rathbone created four characters who appear in more than one book, permitting a certain grouping, while never taking over the heterogeneous spirit of his work or deflecting him from the pursuit of wider fictional interests. First was Inspector Jan Argand (""The Euro-Killers"", ""Base Case"", ""Watching The Detectives""). Then the ""Joseph"" of ""Joseph"" (Booker nomination 1979) makes"
"Mr. Mugs Mr. Mugs is the title character in a series of children's books written by Martha Kambeitz and Carol Roth and published by Ginn and Company (now part of Prentice Hall). Mr. Mugs was an Old English Sheepdog who lived with two children, Pat and Cathy. These readers were used in Canadian elementary schools in the 1970s and early 1980s to teach reading. There were 3 different series (with seven levels within each series) of ""Mr. Mugs"" books:""Ginn Integrated Language Program""; ""Light and Life Reading Series""; and ""Sharing Points in Language Arts"". While two titles were published in hardcover,"
"Dockray. The 2014 edition had illustrations by Jacqueline Rogers. Henry and Beezus Henry and Beezus is the second book in the Henry Huggins series. This humorous children's novel was written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1952. Henry comes up with many ways to earn money for the new red bicycle he wants, but they all seem to end up with him in trouble. Finally his friend Beezus gives him an idea that actually works. Henry Huggins really wants a bicycle, but his family can't afford one this year. One of the older boys in the neighborhood, Scooter McCarthy, has"
"service to London and Uckfield. Neil Trotter and partner Nicky Ottoway, who won £108 Million in the euromillions purchased a £5 Million property with 8 Bedrooms overlooking vast woodland and fields with its own lake in Cowden, following their win. The traditional mansion is also home to Neil’s fleet of Supercars. An attempted break in was reported to the property by a balaclava gang in the months following the purchase of the house, surprising many as Cowden was known as an area with a low crime rate. The English author and illustrator of children's books, Roger Hargreaves, best known as"