No Clean Clothes - by Robert Munsch (Paperback)

About the Book

Lacey has no clean clothes to wear to school, so her mom makes her wear a weird and embarrassing T-shirt. But along the way, Lacey discovers that the weird shirt could turn out to be wonderful!

Book Synopsis

If Lacey can't remember to put her clothes in the laundry, her mom is going to make her wear a weird grandma shirt to school.... And who knows what could happen?

With his classic style, Robert Munsch takes a normal, everyday situation and turns things upside down! When Lacey goes to get dressed for school she finds she has. . .no clean clothes! Her mom tells Lacey to wear the shirt her grandma gave her. It's a weird shirt that says: "Kiss me, I'm perfect!" Lacey just knows the other kids are going to make fun of her. On the way to school, Lacey meets a cat, a dog and an eagle. They all read her t-shirt, and give her a kiss! Then she meets a moose, who gives her a large wet moose kiss, right up the front of her face and over the top of her head. Lacey is thrilled - maybe this shirt is wonderful, not weird! "This is a story about Lacey, a girl from Stewart, B.C. All the animals in the story are really in Stewart. Not near Stewart, IN Stewart. The day I made up this story the kids could not go out for recess because there were two grizzly bears on the playground. Lacey was in grade one and was wearing a t-shirt that said, "GIVE ME A KISS HUG," says Robert Munsch.

Review Quotes

"Martchenko's anti-stereotypical portrayal of a construction-worker mom, with hard hat and chainsaw, doing mommy things, is a refreshing look at motherhood. There's a host of fun characters, reacting to the message on the shirt until the signature Munch last-page punchline reveals one very cool grandma peddling a shopping cart full of t-shirts." -- 49th Shelf