Describes how Tumford the cat tests the patience of his parents by making loud and rude noises that compel a lesson in manners before company arrives.

"When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or two...

David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"

When Lester's mysterious cousin Clara comes to stay with his family she insists on knitting him ugly sweaters and Lester must figure out how to accept the unwanted gifts without hurting his cousin's feelings.

The young characters of this story and their families follow the new rules of socialization when they visit an ice cream shop to buy candy. Wahusika wachanga wa hadithi hii na familia zao wanafuata sheria mpya za kutotangamana na watu wanapotembelea duka la aiskrimu kununua peremende.

As mouse rushes home to dinner, he apologizes for tracking mud everywhere he goes.

In rhyming text, naughty dinosaurs learn the importance of having good manners, saying "please" and "thank you," and never, ever making a mess. --

Penguins are always perfectly polite. But then Polly the not-so-polite penguin decides that being polite is boring! Uh oh! A laugh-out-loud story about the importance of manners!

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

"It's dinnertime for the dinosaurs! One little dinosaur stops playing on the playground to come to the table; another puts her sand toys away when she hears the banging of pots and pans from inside the house. Young readers can follow along as each dinosaur shows off good manners at mealtime"--