Mr. Men / Little Miss

Introducing Little Miss Princess!

Start perfecting your curtseys, polishing your tiaras, and get ready to welcome Little Miss Princess with a right royal wave! Like all proper princesses Little Miss Princess lives in a castle with turrets and a moat. A very big castle. A true royal princess at heart, she accessorises with sparkly blue jewels on her golden crown.

One day, kind-hearted Little Miss Princess decides to help her friends with their chores. But being a princess, she isn’t used to doing things herself, so everything doesn’t quite go to plan!

Celebrating 40 years of Mr. Men Fun!

The first Mr Men title, Mr Tickle, was published in 1971, along with six other titles, including favourites like Mr Bump, Mr Greedy and Mr Happy. Since then over 100 million Mr. Men and Little Miss books have been sold in 22 countries.

This year we’re celebrating 40 years since Roger Hargreaves first created Mr. Tickle for his son, Adam, who asked him what a tickle looked like. Roger drew a figure with a round orange body and long, rubbery arms and Mr. Tickle was born!

Roger Hargreaves went on to create 42 other characters in the series. The books' silly stories with a simple moral lesson and brightly-coloured, boldly-drawn illustrations, became an instant success, spawning a BBC animated TV series, narrated and voiced by Arthur Lowe.

In 1981, the Little Miss series of books began after Roger’s daughters asked for their own stories. Roger Hargreaves wrote 30 of these stories, which were also made into a television series in 1983, narrated by John Alderton and Pauline Collins.

When Roger died suddenly in 1988, Adam Hargreaves took over as the author and illustrator of his father's popular Mr. Men series, and new characters are still being created today. There are 47 Classic Mr. Men and 34 Classic Little Miss stories to collect as well as many other exciting books based on these much-loved characters.