Not one member of a group of friends admits to having made a big mess, or offers to pitch in to clean it up.

When neat and tidy Matty visits his sister Milly, he finds it hard to relax and adjust to living in a house not as clean as his own.

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.

An independent little mouse decides she never ever wants to take off her favorite pajamas.

Dirty little dinosaur doesn't want to wash... how will he be clean in time for bed?

Captain Beastlie is a horror and embarrassment to his shipshape crew. He is the smelliest, dirtiest pirate ever to sail the high seas. So while he?s eagerly counting down the days till his birthday, his crew is planning a special surprise. And when Captain Beastlie?s birthday finally comes, his squeaky-clean crew steals his filthy old clothes, pops him in the bath, and gives him a brand-new pirate outfit to wear at his birthday feast. A rollicking...

"A rhyming survey of a number of animals and how they rest or go to sleep, leading up to a child's own experience of going to bed"--

After crossing raging rivers and tromping through the jungle, Naughty Ninja returns to his secret ninja training camp for lunch. But when he gets inside, his parents tell him he needs a bath. Before Naughty Ninja gets in the tub, he notices poisonous flies and an angry alligator circling his dad, who doesn't even seem to know he's in trouble. Good thing Naughty Ninja is around to save the day! Amid sudsy fun, a boy's imaginary ninja life and his everyday...

"Little Croc's been crunching, snip, snap, Snip! How will she clean her teeth?"--provided by publisher.

Paul and Antoinette have very different personalities and enjoy very different things, but somehow they are still the best of friends.