cleanliness

At first Claudia enjoys her new bathtub, which becomes in turn a fire engine, a floating hospital, and a spaceship, but then she grows tired of being clean and refuses to take a bath, no matter how dirty she gets.

While on a treasure hunt, Jan and her friends help clean up the bog, beach, woods, and their clubhouse.

To give Alex more space to play in his room, Alex's mother figures out how to raise his bed up near the ceiling.

When Grandma, Ma, and Hazel Monster want to find Baby Monster, they follow the messy trail he has left.

Having ignored his mother's warnings about what will happen if he doesn't bathe after working on his family's New Mexican farm, Carlos awakens one morning to find a squash growing out of his ear.

Bessey finally cleans up her messy room.

Bessey shows herself to be a true friend and a good guest when she helps to clean up after a messy birthday sleepover.

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

Messy Bessey learns a lesson about sharing when she cleans out her closet.

A little girl tries to explain that it was an assortment of animals--from ten aardvarks to one kitten--that made the mess for which she is blamed.