Sun #44

This anthology issue contains three main stories: "John and Joan On the Spot," where the young siblings encounter two girls in a motorboat and must rescue them from a sea running after they become stranded near coastal caves; "Patsy and Tim," in which orphaned children discover their uncle's magical dumbbell pills that make them smaller or larger, leading to comedic mishaps around the house; and "Petrified Valley," where characters Wimple and Don investigate mysterious hound sounds in a forest, discovering a hidden village and uncovering a plot involving a missing child and blackmail. The issue also includes "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe," a humorous story about the nursery rhyme character settling her large family into a shoe-shaped home, along with reader competitions, educational features, and celebrity photographs.