A Christmas Story

Once again it is time for the annual 24 hours of "A Christmas Story". The wonderful tale which has Peter Billingsley playing Ralphie in a quest for a Red Ryder BB Gun. I am trying to find copies of the Warner Brothers cartoon which has Ralph Phillips as a daydreaming child. This movie is very similar in style to that, and I think (although I have been unable to validate) that in fact Ralph's teach in the cartoons in Ms. Shields. The same teacher's name in the movie. I think it is eminently possible that in fact they borrowed much from the cartoons. Does anyone out there have an opinion?