Little Angel #10

When Harry and Dora Higgins take their daughter Little Angel to tour a new housing development in Snooty Acres, the mischievous girl can't resist getting involved in the construction—with chaotic results. The next day, when wealthy visitors Mr. and Mrs. Van Uppington arrive to inspect the homes, Little Angel's mud-splattered creation catches the eye of their daughter Penelope, setting off a chain of events that surprises everyone involved. It turns out that sometimes the most unconventional house on the block is exactly what someone's been looking for.

When Little Angel Higgins wakes up on her birthday, her parents hire Miss Claptrap, a professional party supervisor, to keep the celebration under control—much to Miss Claptrap's soon-to-be regret. As Little Angel and her guests Bobby and Elsie arrive, the birthday girl proves that no amount of supervision can contain the chaos that follows, from games gone wrong to a food fight that leaves the house in shambles. By the time the afternoon ends, Miss Claptrap has had enough of the party business.

When the tough new kid Butch O'Roarke moves into the neighborhood and starts picking fights with everyone, Skinny Marink devises a clever scheme to avoid becoming his next target—padding his arms with oranges and rigging a board to snap under his fist. But when Butch discovers the deception, a showdown erupts that forces an unexpected hero to step in and settle who really runs the block.

Little Angel Higgins thinks she's found the perfect way to get pampered when she hears her friend Mary Lynn has measles—until she decides to fake the illness herself with a little help from iodine. When her father's strict boss Mr. Glerkhoff stops by for a visit, things spiral hilariously out of control as Little Angel's scheme backfires in ways nobody could have predicted. This 1957 humor story is a delightful reminder that sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.