Clifford's Puppy Days

While Evan is baby-sitting Emily Elizabeth and Clifford, he tries to impress Vanessa, the new girl in the building, but all his attempts result in disaster./When Emily Elizabeth can't find one of her "lucky" socks for the first day of school, Clifford's determined to hunt it down for her.

The beginning of the new school year brings new neighbors for the Howards. The animals excitedly wonder if they have a pet, until they're alarmed by a strange wailing noise coming from the apartment./The kittens, Flo and Zo, are staying with the Howards while their owner is away for the weekend. Clifford wants to be a good host but the kittens are not the most considerate house guests.

Clifford and Jorge are reminiscing about the day they met. Through flashback, see what happened on Clifford's first trip to the neighborhood dog run./When Clifford realizes how much fun Emily Elizabeth is having in her new club at school, he decides to start one with all of his friends in the apartment complex.

Emily Elizabeth has just finished her best painting ever for the school art fair. Suddenly, by accident, Clifford runs through the paint and right across the painting!/Clifford befriends Bibi, a seeing-eye dog who recently moved into the building. This friendship brings confusion because Bibi appears to ignore Clifford when she is assisting her owner.

Clifford and Emily Elizabeth have a great time playing with the "sock spider." Daffodil feels left out but doesn't tell him how she feels. In the end she finally admits her feelings and Clifford asks her to join in the game./It's another day at the dog run. As per usual, each pup brings a toy to share with the other dogs, but Jorge is reluctant to share his brand-new squeaky squirrel.

When an older dog, Tricksie, moves into the apartment complex, Clifford and Jorge unsuccessfully try to get her to join in their dog games. She gets tired easily and the 2 younger dogs are unsure of how to play with her./When Emily Elizabeth attends her first sleepover, Clifford misses her so much he can't imagine how he'll pass the time until she returns home.

When Clifford inadvertently joins Emily Elizabeth's class on a trip to the Hands-On Nature Museum, Emily Elizabeth and her friends decide to hide his presence./Clifford offers to baby-sit the Sidarsky kids. Despite Daffodil's warnings, he insists that the job will be simple and easy but soon discovers that babysitting the 4 little mice is a lot harder than he anticipated.

Nina's birthday is coming up, and she sets out to plan the best party ever. But at the last minute, a pipe bursts at the party location and ruins Nina's plans./When Mrs. Howard misplaces her car keys, everyone in the house scrambles to try to find them before Emily Elizabeth misses her ballet recital. Daffodil insists that Clifford is just too small to help, but Clifford can't sit idly by.

As he tries to help set up for a big Cinco de Mayo party, Clifford begins to doubt that he has any special skills to offer./It's a beautiful first day of spring and the official opening day of the Courtyard Volleyball season! As Emily Elizabeth grabs her ball and rushes outside to play, Clifford and his friends are right behind her.

It's the first snowfall of the year and it seems like everyone in the apartment building has a set tradition for the occasion except Norville. As a result, Norville is left feeling sad and lonely./Flo is a super-athlete - she excels in physical pursuits, whether it be running, spinning or catching a flying disc. Clifford can't keep up with her, but he doesn't care, as long as he's having fun.

Nina has written a play about springtime and she's making her friends the stars. However, Nina has very specific ideas about how things should be performed and insists everything is done her way./Norville's molting throws him in to a tizzy. Embarrassed by the way he looks, he refuses to let his friends see him.

Norville loves to sing but his constant off-key clamor is driving everyone bonkers. All the animals decide that they need to speak with Norville about the constant singing, but Clifford is worried about hurting his feelings./When a snowstorm prevents Shun, Emily Elizabeth, and Nina from playing outside, Shun entertains his friends with a traditional Japanese story.

When Evan joins the school basketball team he is discouraged by the fact that he's much smaller than his teammates. But Clifford inspires him to use his small size to his advantage./When Jorge neglects to take off a new sweater that Nina knit him, he accidentally rips it while playing with Clifford. Clifford and Daffodil try to help him find a way to fix the sweater, but to no avail.

When Norville's nest disappears, his friends decide to build him a new one, but their bickering and fooling around nearly ruins the plan./Emily Elizabeth eagerly accepts Mr. Solomon's offer of art lessons and has a great time her first day. But when Nina joins them the following day, Emily Elizabeth is discouraged because she thinks Nina's pictures are much better than her own.

It's Clifford's first Valentine's Day and he wants to make a golden retriever pup his new friend by making her his Valentine. Unfortunately, Norville and Jorge convince him that he has to impress her first with tricks and feats of strength and generosity./When the animals find out that Shun is going to get a pet, they each try to influence his opinion.

Emily Elizabeth tells Nina that she still sleeps with her baby blanket. Later, Nina inadvertently shares this information with Shun. Soon, everyone knows about Emily Elizabeth's "blanky."/Jorge, in an attempt to retrieve a ball from the other side of a fence finds himself stuck. His friends try to get him out but Clifford comes up with an idea that does the trick.

Nina loses her date book. Jorge doesn't help her find it, thinking she will have more time to play with him. The plan backfires, and Jorge learns to respect Nina's commitments./When Emily Elizabeth wakes up with a cold, Clifford does everything he can to make her feel better.

Evan promises to give Emily Elizabeth skateboarding lessons, but repeatedly breaks their plans when the captain of the basketball team, Bill Mazer, invites him to play ball./The Community Center is having a book drive and the student who collects the most books will win a full set of Sarah Solver mysteries.

It's the Fall Feast holiday and the Howards are planning to visit Emily Elizabeth's grandparents. But a huge snow storm leaves them snowed in at the train station, along with many of their friends and neighbors./The animals are in the courtyard making up games. When it's Norville's turn to invent a game he consistently reinvents the rules so that each time emerges as the winner.

Little Lucy Sidarsky is having a hard time adjusting to the new baby in the family. Seeing this, Daffodil decides to share with her the story of Clifford's arrival into Daffodil's home./Emily Elizabeth, Nina and Shun decide to make their own kites for a special kite flying day at the park. But when neither girls' kites will fly it looks like they won't be able to participate in kite flying day.

The Sidarskys are moving to a newer mouse hole around the corner. Clifford offers to help them move the big family clock when he comes back from lunch. But on the way back, he gets distracted./Emily Elizabeth and Nina volunteer to read to kids at the book fair, but problems arise when their replacements don't show up on time.

Jorge is excited to learn that Nina will be taking him to the Grooming Shop -- until he gets some misinformation about what a grooming shop is./Evan and Emily Elizabeth offer to mail a letter for Mr. Solomon on their way to buy tickets to a concert by their favorite band, the Zippers. But the kids' plans are disrupted by their own generosity and helpful nature.

Evan, Emily Elizabeth and Clifford all help out at the Adopt-A-Pup booth at the neighborhood street fair. Clifford befriends a teacup poodle named Bon Bon, a tiny dog who is barely bigger than he is, and helps her find a home./It's Wacky Wednesday at school. Emily Elizabeth and her friends are excited to spend the day telling jokes and having fun.

Inspired by a classroom visit by Ken Burns, Emily Elizabeth, Nina and Shun try to make a documentary highlighting people in their neighborhood. But they're so busy trying to do their jobs that they don't realize how they're messing up their interviews./Evan get tickets to see his hero, Allan Houston, play basketball, and he's really excited.