Frank Carlson Library

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

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

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.

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

Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier.

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

Little Duck celebrates his first birthday with the other animals on the farm by copying their examples, from shearing off all his feathers to taking a mudbath, before enjoying Farmer Brown's yummy frosted maple cake.

When Mama Llama says it is time to clean up, Llama ignores her since he is more interested in playing than cleaning, but Mama finds an imaginative way to teach Llama a lesson about cleanliness.

When Wendell doesn't clean up his room, a whole herd of pigs comes to live with him. Wendell went upstairs. Much to his surprise, a large pig was sitting on his bed. Wendell Flutz's room isn't a mess. It's a total pigsty. But Wendell's mother can't get him to clean it up. Wendell doesn't think the mess is so awful. In fact, he doesn't even mind it when one day he discovers a real pig sitting on his bed!

While Andy's parents are at the hospital with a new baby, leaving Andy and his sister at home with their germaphobic aunt, Andy thinks that Aunt Janet wants him to get rid of his pets.