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.

Told in rhyming text, Pig the pug spreads destruction wherever he travels, creating complete chaos wrecking parties and parades until finally the locals unite to tell him to go away--but Pig never really learns his lesson and remains a bad traveling companion to this day.

A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.

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

"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.

When the little princess hears about the germs and nasties living all around her, she understands the importance of washing her hands a lot.

Rabbit needs to clean her room, but when Pete the Problem-Solving Porcupine's plan causes more of a mess, Rabbit needs to quickly come up with her own strategy before chaos ensues.

Grandfather tells Darby and Campbell the parable of the priest who is not allowed to preach until he changes the dirty clothes he is wearing for clean ones.

Henry McHenry is trying his best to keep clean for his class photo, but his attempts to stay spotless get his classmates messy instead.

"A badger realizes that being too tidy could be disastrous"--