Central Kansas Library System

When "dust bunnies" grow under the bed, a child sweeps, mops, and dusts in an effort to chase them away.

Pig the Pug loves to roll in all sorts of disgusting garbage, and track dirty paw prints all over the house; he does not like the idea of a bath, but when his plan the stop up the tub seriously backfires he decides that bath time must be endured--after all he can always find some more garbage to roll in.

When Wendell doesn't clean up his room, a whole herd of pigs comes to live with him. Wendell went upstairs. Much to his surprise, a large pig was sitting on his bed. Wendell Flutz's room isn't a mess. It's a total pigsty. But Wendell's mother can't get him to clean it up. Wendell doesn't think the mess is so awful. In fact, he doesn't even mind it when one day he discovers a real pig sitting on his bed!

When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots.

Papa Bear and the cubs really prefer not to do their chores, and Mama Bear decides to go along with their idea.

When Gorgonzola the dinosaur learns that everyone runs from him to avoid his smell, rather than out of fear, he is grateful to the little bird who shows him how to brush his teeth and wash.