Lizzie goes about her crazy day at school and experiences different things, both good and bad, along the way, such as not being able to sit in her usual seat on the bus to reciting her special poem to her entire class.

Lizzy and her mother take turns listing the kinds of behavior they do and do not want from each other, in a tale with on-target dialogue that will spark follow-up conversations between mothers and their daughters.

Downstairs, Mom, the twins, the dog, and the parrot try to guess what the ruckus is in Nora's room, from forty-seven dogs to driving a pickup truck, in a rollicking picture book filled with rhythmic text and energetic illustrations.

When the dog suddenly decides to change his routine one day and not chase the cat, a strange thing happens as the normal flow of events is thrown all out of step.

When the dog suddenly decides to change his routine one day and not chase the cat, a strange thing happens as the normal flow of events is thrown all out of step.