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Calling All Kids #21 (1948)

Parents' Magazine Press · 1948 · 36 pages

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Contains 7 stories
Twinkle Has a Strange Job
5 pp · humor

Twinkle answers a call for help from a robin family whose house needs painting in red and yellow, but the professional painters have disappeared with all their supplies. Rather than admit defeat, the cheerful star recruits a local baseball team and leads them on a creative mission to the strawberry patch and pumpkin field—turning their game into an unconventional (and messy) decorating solution. It's a delightful bit of problem-solving that proves sometimes the best painters work with fruit and a little imagination.

Marco Polar Bear Solves a Problem
5 pp · humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Marco Polar Bear takes charge of driving a trailer full of eager students—Bobby, Herbie, and Daisy—who are desperate to get to school, but Marco has other ideas when he spots an apple orchard along the way. What starts as a simple arithmetic lesson about apples turns into a wild adventure when a surprise visitor literally falls from the trees, and Marco ends up eating far more than he bargained for. By the time the dust settles, Bobby finally gets the answer to the math problem that's been plaguing him all day.

Untitled story
1 pp · humor; children
The Practical Jokester
5 pp · humor

Dribble the mischievous elf sets his sights on stealing honey from a beehive, hatching one scheme after another to outwit the bees—first with makeshift feather wings, then with a glue trap disguised as a flower. Each clever plan backfires in hilarious fashion, teaching this practical joker that his tricks have a way of coming back to sting him.

The Cat That Found a Ship
2 pp · humor · script Marguerite Hamilton · pencils ? (illustrations) · inks ? (illustrations)

When a little yellow kitten named Jing takes an accidental nap inside a steel locker at the shipyard, he finds himself hoisted aboard a brand-new ship—and the busy workers are too distracted to notice their unexpected stowaway. Trapped in the locker as day turns to night and back again, Jing must figure out how to get the attention of the ship's crew and find his way home.

Johnny Ant Scares a Giant
5 pp · humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Pug and Curly in the Back-Yard Circus
4 pp · humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

When a gusty wind scatters their newspaper, the squirrel friends Pug and Curly spot a picture of circus tight-rope walkers and decide to give it a try themselves. Their backyard practice becomes a hilarious tangle of limbs and tails as the two pals attempt to master the acrobatic feat. It's a slapstick romp that proves sometimes inspiration and determination don't quite add up to success.

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