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    Default Mr Benn books are being reprinted.

    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.........
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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

    Quote Originally posted by Wikipedia
    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.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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    See, if you can find the cartoons somwhere. They are brilliant.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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