Mr Men and Little Miss books have sold more than 250 million copies and counting. And it was a question from Adam, son of creator Roger Hargreaves, which sparked the lot ...

Climb on board The Beagle and join Charles Darwin for adventures in Galápagos, meet an online vlogging family discovering the ...

An entirely reasonable question prompted by a show that has never once explained where anyone came from or why they’re still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr Tickle was one of the first six Mr Men to be released [Getty Images] One morning in 1961, eight-year-old Adam asked his dad: ...

One morning in 1971, eight-year-old Adam asked his dad: "What does a tickle look like?" This was the moment copywriter Roger Hargreaves started thinking of the answer and then drew Mr Tickle, the ...

Roger Hargreaves created the Mr. Men empire after his son asked, 'What does a tickle look like?', but died from a stroke ...

Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most ...

In 1971, advertising writer Roger Hargreaves's eight-year-old son Adam asked him an unusual question: 'What does a tickle look like?' Inspired, Roger got out his marker pens and created an orange ...

Fans have fallen hard for plush dolls representing Tina and Milo, the mascots of Italy’s Winter Games. The clerk at the Olympic gift shop looked deadly serious as he leaned in for a whisper.

The early 20th century saw a redefinition of American childhood toward a time of play and learning. The modern toy industry was not far behind.