Pee-Wee Harris in Luck
Pee-Wee Harris in Luck
Pee-Wee Harris has appetite, optimism, and absolutely zero caution. As a Boy Scout navigating the pitfalls of small-town America, he tackles everything from camping misadventures to get-rich-quick schemes with the same unearned confidence. His latest plan seems foolproof until it isn't, but somehow Pee-Wee stumbles into luck anyway, emerging from each catastrophe with his reputation strangely intact and his friends somehow still loyal. Fitzhugh captures something true about the adolescent conviction that the world owes you a happy ending, and the particular grace that allows certain boys to always land on their feet. The Pee-Wee Harris books ran through two dozen volumes in the 1920s and 30s, peddling a particular American fantasy of innocent competence, where a boy with enough nerve and enough heart could conquer any obstacle. This installment delivers exactly what readers in that era wanted: a likable rogue in a scout uniform, bumbling toward triumph.
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