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Cleanliness

This Is the Van That Dad Cleaned

Lisa Campbell Ernst

In the style of a classic cumulative rhyme, the children undo all of Dad's hard work cleaning the family car.

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Wash Day

Charnan Simon

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

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Smelly Socks

Robert N. Munsch

Tina buys what she believes to be the perfect pair of socks and vows never to take them off, but they get so smelly her friends at school decide to take action.

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Tidy Titch

Pat Hutchins

Titch helps his older brother and sister clean their rooms.

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More Or Less a Mess

Sheila Keenan

A little girl uses sorting and classifying skills to tackle the huge mess in her room. Includes related activities and games.

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Mooch the Messy

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Only for love does a very messy young rat clean up his hole to make his father's visit happier.

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Dirty Feet

Steven Kroll

Penelope removes her too-tight sneakers on the way to school, thereby setting the stage for a series of disastrous encounters between her feet and a variety of messy substances.

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The Marvelous Mess

Joan E. Drescher

A small boy creates a fantastic mess in his room, and though his parents order him to clean it up, he merely conceals it for the moment.

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Fritz and the Mess Fairy

Rosemary Wells

Fritz, a master at creating terrible messes, meets his match when his science project goes wrong and the Mess Fairy emerges.

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Keeping House

Margaret Mahy

Ashamed to let the housekeeper see how untidy her house has become, Lizzie Firkin cleans it herself.

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