Little Ike #3

Little Ike guards his new bag of peanuts like treasure, but when a sneaky squirrel swipes them, he recruits Little Eva and a troop of overzealous scouts to help chase down the thief—with hilariously chaotic results. This 1953 romp proves that sometimes the cure for a petty theft is worse than the crime itself.

Little Ike falls asleep before heading to the drugstore—but when he finally picks up the bottle of witch hazel his mother requested, he discovers it's home to Little Witch Hazel herself, a good witch with real magic powers! She whisks Little Ike and Little Eva on an incredible tour of Witchland aboard a broom rocket ship, where they invisibly explore schools for ghosts, spell-brewing workshops, beauty contests, and a fantastical zoo full of magical creatures and wonders.

Little Ike gets the bright idea to be nice to Little Eva for a week—partly out of guilt for giving her a rough time, but mostly because he hears she's throwing a party and figures kindness might score an invitation. What follows is a hilariously disastrous parade of "nice" gestures gone wrong, from accidental head injuries to a water glass with a tadpole, as the boys try their earnest (and chaotic) best to win over their reluctant guest. The real twist comes when Eva gets the last laugh at her own party the following Tuesday.

Little Ike's day of jungle adventure gets interrupted when his mother sends him on an errand: return a borrowed frying pan to Mrs. Turner. When he runs into Bobby and Eddie playing cowboys, they talk him into using the pan to cook a meal—a plan that spirals into comedic chaos as the boys scramble for ingredients and struggle to keep the borrowed cookware in one piece. Can Little Ike salvage the situation before Mrs. Turner discovers what happened to her pan?