Penguin learns to use good manners when asking for something.

Young David Mortimore Baxter, who knows how to avoid making embarrassing mistakes, shares his rules of etiquette pertaining to telephone answering, car travel, television watching, and nose picking.

"Fun text and illustrations teach the basic concept of using manners and saying, "Please" and "Thank you""--

Lacey Walker talks constantly, but when she loses her voice one day she learns that being quiet and listening can be good too.

A frog who loves to burp learns the value of good manners.

"Have you ever thought about bringing your dragon to the library? Don't do it! You might have the best intentions, but that dragon will cause nothing but trouble" --

Pigeon is very angry when the duckling gets a cookie just by asking politely.

"Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined: tutoring rough Kansas ranchers in the subjects of manners and morals so they can "marry up" with their mail-order brides. Mack Cleveland, whose father was swindled by a mail-order bride, wants no part of the scheme to bring...

When her father goes away, eleven-year-old California "Callie" Poppy winds up with her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica and their ancestor--the once-famous etiquette expert Eleanor Fontaine, now a hypersensitive ghost.

Three episodes feature obedient, polite Pig Will and naughty, bad-mannered Pig Won't, who eventually sees the error of his ways.