Booklist Review

Gr. 1-2. Delton's new easy-to-read series is about the Pee-Wee scouts, a group of boys and girls who get together to earn badges and have fun. In Cookies and Crutches Molly Duff and her friends are excited about learning to bake cookies, but they discover that baking at home is not as easy as it looked during their scout leader's demonstration. Camp Hideaway is the scene of the second book, though Sonny Betz' attempt to scare the girls makes the title Camp Ghost-Away entirely appropriate. Molly, who is not very good at the activities, thinks she won't earn a badge, but as things turn out, she is more deserving than she believed. Odd spacing of paragraphs may look strange to some new readers, while second graders, the book's most natural audience, may not be terribly interested in kids in first grade. On the plus side, this has some funny moments and addresses kids' concerns. Tiegreen, who illustrated several of the Ramona books, provides similar scrawly art. IC.