Calling All Kids #24

Pug and Curly spot a golden opportunity at the zoo: the animals there seem to be getting plenty of peanuts from visitors, so why not help themselves? The two friends devise a scheme to share in the bounty, but their plan to snag free nuts takes an unexpected turn when they encounter an elephant with ideas of its own.

Twinkle promises his caterpillar friends he'll help them enter a funny kite contest, but when Mr. March Wind tears their kite to shreds, our little sky dweller must think fast to build a replacement before the competition begins. What starts as a race against the clock becomes a wild aerial adventure when Twinkle's creative solution takes to the skies in the most unexpected way.

When the Mayor of Animal Town, Paddy Penguin, volunteers to babysit young Jane while her parents catch a movie, he's confident his book smarts and mayoral composure are more than enough for the job—until the baby wakes up and decides to test every ounce of his patience. As Paddy scrambles through feeding, soothing, and entertaining a crying infant, his careful plans unravel in a series of comical mishaps that prove babysitting is a very different kind of leadership challenge.

When Blunderland's famous clown BoBo and his companion the Ask-Me Ax get hopelessly lost, they stumble upon a magical Lollipop Factory where three fruity hosts offer them mountains of free samples. After a mishap involving BoBo's rainbow hat leaves him tumbling into a vat of chocolate, the factory crew learns exactly what kind of lollipop will satisfy their sweet-toothed guests—and the result is almost too good to be true.

Pop and Junior are eager to start their vegetable garden, but their initial digging efforts prove more exhausting than expected—the ground is harder than they bargained for, and Junior keeps digging deeper than Pop intended. When they decide to take a break and consult some gardening catalogs for a better approach, they discover there really is an easier way to prepare the soil after all.