Smart seven-year old Kika and brave fireman Bob are blown to the other side of the world by a typhoon during an attempt to rescue Kika's kitten Tiger who is stuck on the very top of a church tower. They try to travel back home overcoming terrible obstacles, crossing strange territories and meeting even stranger people and animals.
Draco is, indeed, a dragon; but he's not scary at all. In the enthusiastic style of him, he learns in each chapter a pair of opposite words, for example: open-closed, high-low and more.
Mulligan Stew was a children's educational program, sponsored by the 4-H Council and shown both in schools and on television. It was produced by Michigan State University and premiered in 1972 during National 4-H Week in Washington, D.C. The show was named for the hobo dish, and each of the six half-hour episodes gave school-age children information about nutrition.
Produced by V. "Buddy" Renfro, Mulligan Stew featured a multi-racial group of five kids: Maggie, Mike, Micki, Manny, and Mulligan, plus one adult, Wilbur Dooright. The group went on nutritional adventures around the globe, although the series' filming usually stuck close to Lansing, Michigan
School packages included a companion comic book with further adventures of the characters, reviews of things learned from the show, and lyrics to the show's songs.
The show was noted for the key phrase "4-4-3-2" that was often invoked to refer to the USDA's then-recommended number of daily servings of the "Four Food Groups" — "fruits and vegetables," "bread