Barks' employer, Western Publishing, did not only produce comic books, but also children's books which were distributed under the Whitman label. In late 1947, about one year after WDC 74/1 had been published, Barks was asked to do a picture-book version of his comic. The accompanying text was not written by him; however, it mostly keeps to the plot of the comic and also uses a major part of its dialog. The most noticeable changes are the toning-down of the action elements and the addition of a somewhat moralizing frame story. The result was published in 1948 as Whitman Book 845.