If I ever start making children's books out of Smith and Jones' adventures, this will be the first story I choose to adapt. This is developing into a classically structured picture book story, the kind where one character has a problem and then meets every other character in turn asking their opinions. Then (spoiler alert) by the last page the problem has solved itself anyway.
The Bod books and cartoons are the archetypes of these sort of stories. Here's Bod and the Apple. Luxuriate in John Le Mesurier's silky voice, Derek Griffith's wonderful music (he came up with a sig tune for each character's entrance, and the Bod theme, once heard, is never forgotten), and simply animated characters with retractable legs.
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