Mr. Messy gets a visit from Mr. Neat and Mr. Tidy, who set about cleaning up his house.

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.

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.

Day by day, Mortimer, a young pig, keeps getting dirtier and messier.

When Joe messes up his room immediately after his mother has cleaned it, his method of straightening it up again does not meet with her approval.

Harvey tackles a big job: cleaning his room.

Hopscotch the rabbit refuses to wash his ears until his older cousin comes to visit and he learns something about being grown up.

Eight messy bunkmates try to figure out how to divide themselves into equal teams to clean up their cabin at camp.

In an effort to improve their cleanliness and appearance, three nasty gnarlies follow a butterfly's advice.

"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.