including the Daleks and the Weeping Angels.

Writing and illustrating the books is Adam Hargreaves, the son of Mr. Men creator Roger, and the person helping continue the popular British series. Currently, the only books that will be available for purchase this spring will be those of the First, Fourth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors.

Ahead of Hargreaves’ latest books hitting shelves later this month on April 25, EW spoke to the author-illustrator about marrying the two well-known British series.

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It was 1965 and I was seven. The same year of the protest marches in Selma, Alabama fighting for voting rights. Martin Luther King, John Lewis, and hundreds of others risking their lives for suffrage and Jimmy Lee Jackson; a protester shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper.

My family was living in Springfield, Massachusetts where my father was stationed in the Army. We were living off of the military base in a racially mixed neighborhood. I was in first grade and walking home from school with my best friend Yvonne who was also a little brown girl.

We were hopping and skipping along the sidewalk. “Don’t step on a crack or you break your mother’s back”, we sang.