As Algernon the raccoon learns good and bad manners and consideration for others at Miss Molly's School, including lessons in the Careful Listening Laboratory and the Dining Hall of Decorum, young readers are invited to help Algernon with the manners questions he is faced with, and in so doing receive an important introduction to the key concepts of good manners along the way.

James Maclaine has written books about meerkats, general knowledge and manners, come up with countless drawing, doodling and colouring ideas, and devised puzzles and things to do for a range of activity books. His Junior Illustrated Thesaurus is the book that he wishes he'd had as a child.