orderliness

A young boy helps his two neighbors, one as neat as a pin and the other as junky as a pack rat, become friends.

The entire town of Up Yonder joins in to help their favorite teacher clean up her messy classroom.

Max's big sister Ruby is determined to help him clean up his messy room, but he keeps rescuing things that she wants to throw away.

Max learns the importance of keeping his desk clean, with help from his friend Zoe.

When a boy asks his mother why he must make his bed, she tells him a story about his ancestors who posed the same question through the centuries, going all the way back to a caveboy and his mother.

Harriet and her mother exchange mean words when Harriet refuses to pick up her toys, until an apology saves the day and everyone sits down to a spaghetti dinner.

This dog needs to learn to keep himself neat and clean, to put his room in order, and to smile and not be mean; then friends will like to be with him.

Illustrations and simple text tell a story about Messy Bessey and her very messy bedroom.

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.

The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when the neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920.