Polly Pigtails #36

# Polly Pigtails #36 (January 1949) This issue is an anthology featuring "The Story of the Campfire Girls," in which three girls—Mary Beth, Carol, and Charles—face a dangerous nighttime rescue when a ship called the Sea Bird capsizes in the water, requiring them to use rope-climbing and swimming skills to survive. The issue also contains "Copycat" by Virginia Greene Millikin, about Ruth Billing and her two brothers who move to Denver and encounter a talking parrot at a restaurant that mimics everything people say. Additionally, the magazine includes a Polly Pigtails story involving a club project related to the Statue of Liberty and characters including Babette, a war orphan from Europe, with scenes of children playing in the snow.