Pigeon is very angry when the duckling gets a cookie just by asking politely.

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

A story about a rude cake who never says please or thank you or listens to its parents, and a Giant Cyclops who is polite.

In rhyming text, dinosaurs learn the does and do nots of Halloween trick or treating.

Lacey Walker talks constantly, but when she loses her voice one day she learns that being quiet and listening can be good too.

Ralph Raccoon is too polite so his parents send him to Bandit School to learn to behave like a properly bad raccoon.

Monkeys, mice, snakes, cats, and many other animals demonstrate how to act towards others.

Howard B. Wigglebottom learns about manners.

Young David Mortimore Baxter, who knows how to avoid making embarrassing mistakes, shares his rules of etiquette pertaining to telephone answering, car travel, television watching, and nose picking.

"When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or two...