Maisy the mouse and her friend Charley clean her house together and then treat themselves to cupcakes.

In the style of a classic cumulative rhyme, the children undo all of Dad's hard work cleaning the family car.

"Sally and Nick are playing in the rain and getting really muddy! So when the Cat in the Hat offers to show them how animals get clean, the kids are keen to find out. But can Sally and Nick really get rid of the mud by taking dust baths, like a sparrow? Or by licking themselves, like a lion? And where are they going to find an oxpecker to pick it off them, like a hippo has? (Besides, oxpeckers tickle!) Maybe there's a better way for a kid to get clean?"...

Amber Brown loves the second grade but wonders if she will ever receive an award from Deskarina, the desk fairy, for keeping her desk clean.

"Pirates are a dangerous and dirty lot, but when they get an invitation to a little girl's birthday party, they're simply delighted... but Pete the pirate parrot makes them clean up before they go. No bath, no cake."-- From dust jacket flap.

"Eww! What a stinker! Pig isn't just the world's greediest pug, he's the DIRTIEST, too. It's time he had a bath! But try telling Pig that..."--Page [4] of cover.

Bessey finally cleans up her messy room.

Bella Legrossi and Boris Kleanitoff, the messiest and cleanest monsters in Booville respectively, do nothing but argue until the night of Harry Beastie's Halloween party.

"When Mrs. Wishy-Washy asks her farm animals to take a bath for Christmas, they find a way to take one without freezing."--T.p. verso.

Because he doesn't like mud, Otis is different from the other pigs and has trouble finding friends.