Little Audrey #10

Little Audrey decides the best way to skip dancing class is to impersonate Boodle the kitten—complete with meows, purrs, and four-legged antics—but her mother catches on faster than Audrey expected. Will the charade hold up long enough to keep Audrey out of her afternoon lesson, or does Mother have a trick of her own up her sleeve?

Little Audrey's desperate to earn a good grade so her father will take her to the carnival, but her schemes to impress Miss McInny keep backfiring—from a well-meaning basket of apples to a tragic encounter with a cactus plant. Watch as she tries one more ambitious plan to prove her responsibility and finally make the grade.

When Little Audrey learns that Patches admires the refined Peggy O'Malley, she decides to reinvent herself as a proper young lady—trading her beloved toad and tomboyish ways for dolls and grace. But as she stumbles through attempts at ladylike behavior, a newspaper interview with Peggy reveals a surprising truth that sends Audrey back to being exactly who she is. A charming tale about the trouble that comes from pretending to be someone you're not, all for the sake of impressing a friend.

Little Audrey needs a new bike to show up a boastful classmate, and when a soap contest prize disappoints her, she sets her sights on winning a junior ski race instead—though she'll need Patches's help and a lot of courage to cross the finish line first. This six-page romp is full of Audrey's scrappy scheming and the kind of slapstick mishaps that make 1950s humor comics so much fun.