Fun-loving, mischievous Abigail, the little Scottish girl whose story began in author Moira Miller and illustrator Doreen Caldwell's Oh, Abigail!, returns in this second slim collection of short stories about her everyday adventures. From visiting a museum to playing with Auntie Macdonald's little boy Christopher, from sailing a model ship with her father in the park to visiting the corner shop by herself, Abigail knows how to have fun...

Much like its predecessor, I enjoyed Just Like Abigail!, finding its young heroine an engaging and sympathetic character. I discovered these book while investigating the work of Moira Miller, and being an Abigail myself, decided to track them down out of curiosity. Published in the 1980s, they contain "slice of life" stories, and can be quite charming. They can also feel a little dated, as in the chapter where Abigail's mother decides that she is getting a little too chunky, and puts her on a diet, leading our heroine to lecture a fat man she meets in public about the benefits of salad and exercise! It's difficult to imagine this being published today. Leaving that aside, I enjoyed this one, and only regret that I was never able to track down the third and final Abigail book, It's Abigail Again!. Recommended to beginning chapter-book readers who enjoy stories of children and their everyday adventures. ( )