When the little critter can't find his baseball mitt, his mother decides it's time for him to clean his room.

If Jule Ann sits under a tree or in a sandbox, or even wears a raincoat on a sunny day, the mud puddle will follow her and make her dirty, until one day she battles the persistent puddle with two bars of soap, chasing it away forever.

A bird enjoying a mud puddle is joined by a variety of other birds, one at a time, until the five of them get clean again.

Everyone wants to look their best for the party. But Little Duck has never had a birthday before so how better to learn how to prepare than to do what all the other animals do! The sheep trim their wool so Little Duck trims her feathers. The pigs need a mud bath so Little Duck squishes and squashes, too.

"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?"--

A zany but well-meaning cat brings a cheerful, exotic, and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother is out.