About this book

Lacey never puts her clothes in the laundry hamper, until once morning she goes to get dressed for school she finds she has . . . no clean clothes!

Her mom tells Lacey to wear a shirt her grandma gave her — a weird one 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, then 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! But when her classmate reads the shirt and gives her a peck on the cheek: YUCK! BOY KISS!

Robert Munsch wrote this story for a girl from Stewart, B.C., a place full of all the wildlife in the book! The day he visited the school there, 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, “KISS ME, I’M PERFECT!” This classic Munsch tale is now reissued with a bright new cover design.

Behind the scenes

In 1998, Scholastic held a contest where Robert Munsch was the prize. The class that ended up winning was a Grade 2 class from Stewart, British Columbia. Munsch made up three stories while he was there. No Clean Clothes was one of the stories. It happened because a kid named Lacey came to school wearing a shirt that said “Kiss Me! I’m Perfect.” Since the school could not go out for recess because there were three grizzly bears on the playground, Munsch made up a story about Lacey walking to school and getting kissed by lots of local animals like bears and wolves and moose and caribou (NEAT!) and finally by a boy (YUCK!). ART ALERT! All the buildings in the book are real buildings from Stewart, British Columbia. Michael Martchenko also hid an elephant in the book.

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