Little Eva #31

When Little Eva finds a compass, her curiosity leads her to Grandpa Moses, who spins a tall tale about a girl named Eva-Loha stranded on a South Sea island. Following the compass north in search of cooler weather, Eva-Loha hitches a ride with a lost polar bear—but the journey pushes her from sweltering heat straight into the Arctic freeze. Rescued by a kindly Eskimo and his daughter, Eva-Loha must navigate an unexpected path back home in this whimsical adventure that bounces between tropical and icy extremes.

When Eva's cousin Itsy-Bit arrives for a visit, Uncle Burt dreads the visit from the pint-sized prodigy with superhuman strength—until she charms the neighborhood kids with what she claims is magic grass that makes a troublesome boulder disappear. As Eva and Itsy-Bit pull off their clever trick, Uncle Burt's grumpiness melts away, especially when he remembers just how useful his gifted young cousin can be.

When Nipper's pal Spike offers him an incredible deal on a balloon—just one cent—it seems too good to be true, and it is. As the balloon deflates, revealing a hole Spike swears was already there, the two find themselves in an escalating dispute that lands them in a general store, where things go from bad to worse when a penny falls into the cash register and misunderstandings pile up. Nipper discovers that sometimes the best revenge is patience and a little strategic thinking.

When Little Eva agrees to babysit Junior, she quickly discovers the toddler is determined to escape his play pen at every opportunity. Faced with a persistently adventurous handful, Eva comes up with a clever solution to keep him contained—though whether her plan succeeds is another story entirely.

Little Eva decides to make donuts but her first batch turns out rock-hard, so she hatches a clever scheme to put them to use instead of tossing them in the garbage. What starts as a simple way to avoid waste becomes an unexpectedly profitable venture that teaches the young entrepreneur a thing or two about resourcefulness.

Little Eva and Nipper brew up a batch of vitamin-enriched soda pop, complete with invisible vitamins, hoping to sell it to mothers convinced their kids need a boost—but their first sales pitch doesn't go quite as planned. When the concoction accidentally finds a much better use, the young entrepreneurs discover that sometimes the best discoveries come from happy accidents.

Little Eva shows off her new roller skates to Nipper and accepts his dare to catch him, leading to a chaotic chase through the neighborhood that involves wet cement and a close call with Mrs. Swade. In the end, Eva's quick thinking turns an accident into an unexpected reward.