Simple text and illustrations portray a small dog waking up, having breakfast, and getting ready to play.

Everyone in Andy's family except the dog has an excuse for not playing with him, but playing with Rover tires Andy to the point where he has to make excuses to the dog.

When Max's dog Puppy gets lost, it is not until both Max and Puppy have the same idea that they finally find one another.

Rebuffed by John, who is busy, Jessie plays instead with Muffy the dog, who displays both old and new tricks.

Sleepy Dog thinks of many excuses why he cannot go to sleep at bedtime, but finally he does become sleepy enough to slip into slumber.

Friends who call themselves the Banana Bunch pitch in to plan and prepare a surprise birthday party for one of their regular members, Molly's dog Scruffy, and Scruffy repays them by finding their missing baseball. Includes ideas for making someone's birthday special.

Pushkin the dog, once the apple of his owners' eyes, tries to cope with the arrival of a new baby to the house.

When Posey and her puppy plan a party, everything, from the placecards to the pink pudding, begins with the letter "p."

A dirty young boy who does not want to take a bath imagines all sorts of animals in the tub.