Little Angel #14

Little Angel Higgins turns to her father Harry for help with a task, but Harry sees it as a teaching moment—he's determined to show her that she can solve problems on her own instead of always depending on others. As Harry demonstrates what needs to be done, he shares his philosophy that persistence and self-reliance are the keys to overcoming any challenge. Little Angel learns an important lesson about trying and trying again.

When Harry Higgins answers a tough quiz show question at home, he decides Little Angel needs to watch more educational television—and winds up taking her to the live taping of *Prizes Galore Quiz* that very night. Father and daughter find themselves competing against Professor N. Cy Klopedia and his brainy son Brainard in a special father-and-child quiz match, where Harry's textbook knowledge faces off against Little Angel's surprising talent for remembering the TV shows her dad said she shouldn't watch. As the questions get tougher and the stakes climb toward the giant jackpot prize, Little Angel might just prove that even "silly" entertainment has its own kind of value.

Little Angel Higgins finds a stray dog and gets into a quarrel with her neighbor Arnold over who should keep it—a dispute that escalates into a vote that ends in a tie. When Little Angel tries to win the dog back with a stolen steak, she discovers the pup's true owner has been searching for her all along, and a surprising reward awaits six weeks later.

Skinny Marink wants to build muscle like his tough friend Butch O'Roarke, so he decides to try the same weight-lifting program—ordering weights by mail to gradually build strength. But after weeks of packages arriving, Skinny discovers that someone else entirely has been reaping the real benefits of his ambitious plan. A lighthearted tale about shortcuts and unexpected results from 1958's Little Angel.

When Little Angel Higgins is told to stop bothering her parents and get things herself, she takes the lesson to heart—a little too enthusiastically. Her well-meaning attempts at independence through the night create a cascade of household mishaps that teach her (and her exasperated parents, Harry and Dora Higgins) that sometimes asking for help is the smarter choice.

Skinny Marink sees an easy way to make money when a woman pays him a quarter to watch her child for fifteen minutes—so he and his pals launch a baby-sitting service at twenty-five cents an hour. What begins as a sure path to riches quickly turns chaotic when they discover that minding a whole gang of toddlers is far trickier than they bargained for, with spilled water, mud, broken toys, and scraped knees piling up faster than they can handle.

Little Angel Higgins helps her mother Dora pack away summer clothes for winter storage, learning about mothballs and their purpose in protecting garments from moths. When Little Angel spots what she thinks is a moth, she decides to take pest control into her own hands—with hilariously ineffective results.