Little Eva #1

When Little Eva finds a stethoscope, she decides the best thing to do is track down its owner at City Hospital and claim a reward—but her well-meaning plan quickly spirals into chaos as hospital staff mistake her for a patient and she becomes entangled in one mix-up after another. By the time she finally escapes the hospital, Little Eva learns a hard lesson about good intentions and the importance of telling the truth.

Hot-Rod thinks he's stuck with an unwanted chore when his little cousin Elfreda comes to visit and he's supposed to entertain her—all he wants is to get to the ball game with the gang. He tries every trick in the book to ditch her, from hide-and-seek to follow-the-leader, and even bribes his friend Cindy to take over, but his schemes have a way of backfiring in the most unexpected ways.

On a sweltering day, Little Eva tries everything to cool off—from raiding the refrigerator to hunting for a place to swim—but her plans keep running into unexpected obstacles. When she finally tracks down the old swimming hole on the other side of town, one last mix-up threatens to derail her perfectly hot summer day. A lighthearted romp about a determined girl learning that the best solutions are often the simplest ones.

Little Eva and her friend Clarence team up to start a perfume business, crafting a homemade formula they plan to sell to the neighbors—only to discover their concoction is so pungent that doors slam in their faces at nearly every house. When their awful-smelling spray accidentally repels flies from a florist's shop, the two entrepreneurs finally find an unexpected market for their peculiar product.