Little Eva #11

Little Eva's ball bounces over the fence into Mrs. Sanders' yard—a problem made worse when Eva borrows a neighbor's fishing rod to retrieve it and accidentally knocks it into the yard too, along with her friend's dog. As Eva and her pals scramble to fix the mess before Officer Sanders (the policeman who lives there) finds them, one mishap tumbles into the next in true comic-strip fashion.

Little Eva welcomes a new neighbor to town and offers to show her the local sights—but when Eva points out the town's notorious gossip, she gets a clever lesson in how quickly rumors spread. This quick-witted humor story perfectly captures the mischievous charm Eva brings to every situation.

Little Eva sets up a pea-shooter game booth at the local business bureau, but struggles to attract customers—until she comes up with a clever new target that suddenly makes business boom. When the unexpected success draws unwanted attention, Eva and her friend Cindy realize they may have gotten more than they bargained for.

Nipper decides to play counter-spy and spots a suspicious stranger sneaking around town—only to completely misread the situation, convinced the man is part of an elaborate spy ring when he's actually just trying to replace a lost wallet. As Nipper and a friend trail their "suspect" to a cigar store, their wild conclusions about secret signals and payoffs accidentally help a local cop catch the man on an unrelated charge. It's a funny reminder that sometimes a kid's overactive imagination can stumble onto the right answer for all the wrong reasons.

Little Eva's determined to find out what weather awaits her afternoon picnic, so she tracks down the weather man at his office—and he decides to take her on a wild rocket-ship journey to meet the mysterious Old Man Weather Control himself. When an accidental mishap puts him in a foul mood and threatens to ruin her plans, Eva discovers an ingenious way to turn his whole day around.

Little Eva finds a cute mouse in her garden and decides to protect it from her parents' plans to trap it. When Eva discovers the mouse has cleverly used a pencil to spring the trap and steal the cheese, she opens the door to let it escape—but not before it causes quite the commotion in the household. A heartwarming tale of a girl's compassion for a clever little creature who outwits everyone at the game.

When Eva discovers a yard full of orphaned dogs, her father insists she get rid of them—so she tries to leave them behind at the city dump during a wild treasure hunt expedition. What Eva doesn't count on is the determined little pups following her back home, and her newfound solution to keep her dad happy. This heartwarming 1953 romp proves that sometimes the best ideas come from thinking outside the box.