Mr Cheerful - Roger Hargreaves

Mr Cheerful is the 43rd of the popular Mr Men children's books and the last one to be created by Roger Hargreaves. The books were a favourite of mine when I was a child, and now my son loves them as well. The author started writing them in 1971 after his son asked him what a tickle looked like and he drew it, resulting in the first book in the series, Mr Tickle. His son, Adam, continued writing and illustrating the stories after Roger's death in 1988, and this is the fourth of Roger's books that Adam published after his death. Mr Cheerful is a happy, round orange ball with a big grin, little yellow button nose and a yellow and turquoise hat. Everyone around ...

The Mr Men series of books has been well loved for many, many years. Roger Hargreaves wrote the first 39 books and his son Adam wrote the final seven. Adam was actually Roger's initial reason for writing the books, as one day he asked his dad what a tickle looked like and inspired Roger to write Mr Tickle. Each book tells the story of a different Mr Men character and this book in question, Mr Cheerful is number 43 in the series, meaning it was actually written by Adam Hargreaves. Like all of the Mr Men and Little Miss books the front cover of this story is extremely simple. In the centre of the book is a picture of Mr Cheerful, a small bubbly looking orange ...

Mr Cheerful is a round orange shaped character. He wares a yellow and blue hat and always has a nice big smile. He is number 43 in the collection. The cover of the book is white and has a picture of Mr Cheerful and the title in black lettering above this and the back cover is also white and has small pictures showing all of the other characters available in the collection. THE STORY The book begins by telling us a bit about Mr Cheerful, how he always wakes in a cheerful mood with a nice big smile and that he is probably the most cheerful man you could ever meet. There was one thing which mad him sad but he kept that a secret and did not ...