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In Midnight Adventures, a koala bear, a doll, and a mouse step into a painting and find themselves in another world; in Naughty Nancy, the mischievous mouse causes trouble at school, then performs a heroic rescue. Disparities in color and inexact matching up of pictures from the half-page inserts to the full-page ones are a minor distraction in these wordless stories full of humorous detail.