Mr Benn books are being reprinted.

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They are re-releasing the Mr Benn books having been unavailable for 30 years. The cartoons they were based on were brilliant.

This is a great day.

Not only that, the Wombles books are being re-released.

Happy days indeed.

and as if by magic a shopkeeper appeared.........

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I was unfamiliar with Mr Benn, so I looked it up.

Whether in a book, or on television, Mr Benn's adventures take on a similar pattern. Mr Benn, a man wearing a black suit and bowler hat who never seems to go to work, leaves his house at 52 Festive Road and visits a fancy-dress costume shop where he is invited by the moustachioed, fez-wearing shopkeeper to try on a particular outfit. He leaves the shop through a magic door at the back of the changing room and enters a world appropriate to his costume, where he has an adventure (which usually contains a moral) before the shopkeeper re-appears to lead him back to the changing room, and the story comes to an end. Mr Benn returns to his normal life, but is left with a small souvenir of his magical adventure.

Aw. I can see how kids would love that.

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See, if you can find the cartoons somwhere. They are brilliant.