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

Olivia, who is very neat and practically perfect, despairs because her sister Sophia is super-completely and totally the messiest person, no matter where she goes or what she does.

After a series of mishaps involving crumbs, drips, splatters, and spills, the neat and tidy house that Mom left is a mess.

At bathtime a youngster has to struggle to get his recalcitrant pet boa into the tub.

Little Oink is a neat little pig, but his parents will not allow him to play until he is messy, as pigs should be.

No matter what he does, Larry always gets dirty--except in the shower.

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

A monster sneaks into a boy's room and cleans up while the boy is asleep.

Introduces, in brief text and illustrations, the use of the letter combination "ob" in such words as "knob," "mob," "fob," and "blob."

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.