Books with title The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes

About this Scholastic Blue Ribbon Book: If you don't wash your dishes and you don't wash you dishes and you don't wash your dishes AND you don't wash your dishes...one day you might have to use a soap dish for a dish. Or a flowerpot. Or...what? Readers of all ages will laugh sympathetically over Phyllis Krasilovsky's absurdly logical (and best-selling) story of a man on strike against washing his dishes--which has been in print since its publication in 1950. Illustrator, Barbara Cooney has twice won the Caldecott Medal, for "Ox-cart Man" by Donald Hall in 1980 and for "Chanticleer and the Fox" in 1959.

The story is about a man who lived alone in a little house who had to do his own cooking. After eating his supper, he would be too tired to do the dishes, so he'd put them off to do them the next day. This goes on, and on, and pretty soon, all of his dishes, all of his pots, all of his flowerpots, his ashtrays, his candy dish, and even his soap dish, were dirty to the extent that he couldn't even find his chair, or his bed! Then a miracle happened, and from then on, he cleaned up his dishes after every meal.