2017-04-24 Mon

Certain stamp series take you back to an amazing childhood. Royal mail decided to do just that! They issued a Mr. Men Little Miss stamp set on 20th October 2016.

These stamps feature ten characters of the Mr. Men and Little Miss series: Mr. Happy, Little Miss Naughty, Mr. Bump, Little Miss Sunshine, Mr. Tickle, Mr. Grumpy, Little Miss Princess, Mr. Strong, Little Miss Christmas and Mr. Messy. These are 1st class stamps having a perforation of 14.5 X 14.5. They are 35mm in size and printed using lithography by International Security Printers.

These Mr. Men and Little Misses is a series of 49 Children’s books written by the father-son duo of Roger and Adam Hargreaves in 1971. Each book in the original Mr. Men and Little Miss series introduced a different title character and his/her single dominant personality to convey a simple moral lesson. The books' simple stories, with brightly colored, boldly drawn illustrations, made them very popular, with sales of over 100 million worldwide across 28 countries.