Frank Carlson Library

When Daddy is unhappy about the mess after a pillow fight, JoJo thinks of the perfect gift.

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

After playtime, Little Tiger has to pick up all his toys.

"In this latest misadventure, Nate, the all-time record-holder for detentions, gets to see how the other half lives as he follows his best friend Francis's example and becomes a total neat freak; has Nate totally flipped out?"--

His sister D.W. convinces Arthur to have a garage sale after his mother tells him to get rid of the junk in his room, but things do not work out exactly as he had planned.

Forbidden to go outside because his room is a mess, a young boy reflects on the pleasures he is missing.

At first Henry's very neat cousin doesn't like the cookies from under his bed or Mudge's slobbery kisses, but when they all play frisbee, she begins to enjoy her visit.

Baby bunny siblings Max and Ruby put toys and puzzles away before going to bed.

Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini has a vivid imagination when it comes to cleaning his disastrously messy room, but eventually even he decides that it is just too dirty. Comic strip illustrations are interspersed throughout the text.

When Joe messes up his room immediately after his mother has cleaned it, his method of straightening it up again does not meet with her approval.