A Skippy "Big Little" book for children, this repeats the stories from "The Story of Skippy", with a few other stories in the mix. Not as good as the strips or novels, and probably not written by Crosby, the stories preserve the same innocence and charm of those formats. ( )

Percy Crosby was the creator of one of my very favorite old comic strips, "Skippy". Crosby himself led a tragic life, finally being unjustly comitted to an insane asylum for the final decades of his life. He was a genius both by virtue of his comic strip and this book which is based on the strip. It is a novel of childhood innocence, humor, intrigue and tragedy. ( )