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The starburst bubble to the right of Nurse Carol's head proclaiming that "she's got four legs!" led me to believe that the story would be quite different to how it actually was. :D And I love the art in this, it reminds me of the illustrations from a bunch of mouldy hard-cover Famous Five books I once had.

Something about it just feels good to read, even if it is a bit over-earnest. No?

Yes, basically. It's pat and sentimental, but it has some mysterious quality that marks it out as worth reading in a way that the later Bunty stories don't. I don't know, is it gravitas? It's painfully corny, but it's corny about stuff that matters!