…is one of my favourites of Roger Hargreaves series for children. It is also a series for big children like me who can still spend hours in toy shops and children books departments without needing a little one as an excuse to do so. OK, I recently upgraded to being a favourite aunty (because I made a deal with the Easter bunny to prepare the nieces’ flat with chocolate, decoration etc. while they were on holidays), so it’s not that I entirely browse for myself anymore…

Today is apparently the author’s 76th birthday – unfortunately he passed away already in 1988…

Google honours him with one of the most series ranges of doodles I ever saw on such occasions. Maybe they had so many good ones to choose from that they decided to take them all. Here are the ones I discovered: