Frank Carlson Library

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

When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots.

Pig the Pug loves to roll in all sorts of disgusting garbage, and track dirty paw prints all over the house; he does not like the idea of a bath, but when his plan the stop up the tub seriously backfires he decides that bath time must be endured--after all he can always find some more garbage to roll in.

"A badger realizes that being too tidy could be disastrous"--

While their father is napping, two boys enthusiastically wash everything in sight, from dishes and toys to the rug and wall.

Maisy the mouse and her friend Charley clean her house together and then treat themselves to cupcakes.

In this colorful story of a sloppy dog, you can count on a happy ending.

From the creators of Little Pea and Little Hoot comes this tidy tale of a decidedly different pig. Little Oink is a neat little fellow. Clean, clean, clean, that's all he wants to do. But Mama and Papa won't have it! They say in order to be a proper pig, he has to learn to make a proper mess. "Don't come out until your room is a pigsty," says Papa Pig. "I won't have any child of mine going out looking so neat and clean. It's just not acceptable,"...

Amber Brown loves the second grade but wonders if she will ever receive an award from Deskarina, the desk fairy, for keeping her desk clean.

Illustrations without words depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean.