little miss mentor's muse...among others ;-)

It just wouldn't be right if little miss mentor does not commemorate what would have been the 76th birthday of children's author Roger Hargreaves, the original creator of Mr. Men and Little Miss series.  Google celebrates this event with a series of homepage doodles depicting characters from his popular Mr. Men and Little Miss books (I'm sure you've noticed today).

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.

According to Cloe Albanessius in PCMAG.COM 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.

The books were an instant success, selling more than one million copies in the first three years. By the mid-70s, Hargreaves' books were turned into a BBC cartoon series. In 1981, the Little Miss Series appeared, and it too was turned into a BBC series by 1983.

Mr. Hargreaves inspires thousands of fun-loving, creative Mr.'s and little misses around the globe, including this little miss mentor ;-)

Just to show that out of the box thinking as main ingredient coupled with a generous dose of humor, rounded off with simplicity might stir up an innovative idea - pure inspiration!