Little Eva #25

Little Eva sets her sights on a super-surprise giveaway that requires 500 cereal box tops, and she rallies her friends to hunt down enough boxtops around town. When their house-to-house search and trips to the local dump prove slow going, the resourceful group spots a shortcut at the supermarket—one that might just get them to their goal faster than they expected.

Little Eva and a friend scheme to sneak into an adults-only movie by disguising themselves as grown-ups, complete with borrowed clothes and shoe polish "wrinkles." Their elaborate masquerade nearly works—until they discover the theater's schedule has other plans in this quick, clever bit of kid logic gone hilariously awry.

Nipper's brand-new bike vanishes almost the moment he gets it, and he spots the neighborhood tough, Knuckles Knowley, riding away on it—so he sets out to reclaim his prize, leading to a wild chase through town. When a cop finally steps in to settle the dispute, a surprising discovery reveals that neither boy has the bike they think they do, and the real culprit behind Nipper's missing ride is something far simpler than theft.

Little Eva sets up a lemonade stand, but when a customer drinks six glasses and complains of feeling ill, she discovers her "cure-all" concoction might not be quite the remedy she thought. It's a quick, silly tale about a young entrepreneur learning that sometimes the simplest solutions don't work the way you hope.

Little Eva and her friend Cindy head out for a fishing trip at their secret pond, but their plans keep getting disrupted—first by the persistent Nipper, who claims to catch fish with his bare hands, and then by a series of unexpected complications that turn their quiet afternoon into complete chaos. As the girls try different fishing spots to escape Nipper's interference, they come up with an increasingly creative (and messy) solution to catch the big fish they're after. It's a lighthearted tale of friendship, friendly competition, and the kinds of ridiculous schemes that only make sense when you're young and determined.

Wide-Awake Girl finds little Eva convinced she's not tired enough for bed, so she hatches a plan to sneak out her window using a makeshift rope and stay up playing all night. After managing to escape and then struggle back through her window to avoid her parents, Eva lies down "for just a minute" to catch her breath—only to discover the next morning that she's slept through the entire night, making her parents' bedtime rules look pretty wise.

When Eva and her friend Cindy receive a mysterious radio transmission on their homemade telephone claiming to be a flying saucer landing on Earth that very night, they race to tell their pals—though skeptical Nipper needs convincing. The kids become "sky watchers" waiting for the UFO's arrival, only to witness something far more wondrous than they bargained for streaking across the night sky.