Mr Benn has passed away. His last trip.

[Jenny Tailor]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-6102...

I loved the cartoons as a kid.

[rjfp1962]

Loved this and the different lives of Mr Benn

R.I.P David McKee and thanks for creating some great tv when I was a kid..

[Byker28i]

I think we still have one of the kids Elmers in the loft...

[ARFBY]

Mr Benn was a firm favourite of mine growing up. I would have been watching when I was around 7 years old.

My kids have Elmer books and my 7yo son brings them home from the school library. I didn't realise he was the author, It's kind of nice knowing we have a little childhood connection.

[FNG]

He also did Not Now, Bernard which I thought was a great book.

Upsets some people - reviews on Amazon are eye-opening that people really can interpret a kids story in such ways - but I always felt the ones most appalled were probably the ones he had in mind while writing it...

We've got an Elmer too. Great legacy.

[blue_haddock]

As i posted on the celebrity death post - a little bit of my childhood has died.