Word: moppets
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Stowaway in the Sky is no respecter of age. It will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its balloonist-eye view of the fair land of France...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its breath-catching, balloonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...
...Gimmick." Of all the funny-paper freedom fighters, none is more dogged than Harold L. Gray's 38-year-old Orphan Annie, a mop-haired moppet who has empty circles for eyes* and a bald, dinner-jacketed billionaire for a foster father. Last month, Annie and her Daddy Warbucks were holed up on a tropical island somewhere just off the map. Suddenly "enemy" planes appeared, carrying H-bombs. But Daddy and his pals were forearmed. Using what he calls his "ray gimmick," Daddy exploded the H-bombs prematurely, atomizing the attackers...
...Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, the zoo is a brightly colored fairyland that is designed to make adults feel just a little bit as if they were intruding in somebody else's territory (see color). A grownup must be accompanied by a child to get past the moppet-height turnstile (admission: 10?). The coin-operated dispensers for animal food are knee-high, and the waste receptacles are painted to look like enormous green and yellow frogs (FEED ME PAPER) and big brown bulldogs (I EAT ANYTHING...
TOBIAS AND HIS BIG RED SATCHEL (by Sunny B. Warner; Knopf; $3) reflects every moppet's image of himself as a grown-up Mr. Fixit. Toting around a battered old doctor's bag almost as big as he is, Tobias finds novel uses for its contents. With his saw he rescues an absent-minded carpenter who had built a house without a door. With his shovel he refloats a stranded whale. Author-Illustrator Warner's pictures are as winningly harum-scarum as her resourceful little hero...