Donald's Dream

Donald's Dream is a book in the Mickey's Young Reader Library series.

Summary
One morning Donald Duck goes fishing, but when he arrives at Grandma Duck's farm to borrow her fishing pole and find some worms, she reminds him that he promised to help her plant her vegetable garden. Donald claims that there is a hole in his overalls, and he hasn't gotten around to mending them, so he goes home to do that. He finds that he doesn't have any thread, so he goes to borrow some from Daisy. She won't help mend his overalls because he hasn't kept his promise to patch up the hole in her roof. Donald needs to fix Daisy's ladder before he can do that, so he brings it home to fix it. When he returns home, his garage is a mess, and he also remembers that he left his hammer and nails at Uncle Scrooge's mansion. On the way, he passes by Goofy's house and finds that Goofy needs help fixing his bike. Donald realizes he'll need a wrench for that task and goes to borrow Mickey's. While there, Donald finds that Pluto is angry at him because he never bought the bones he promised to buy him. Donald admits he doesn't have the money for that because Scrooge hasn't paid him for it. When Donald gets to Scrooge's mansion and picks up his hammer and nails, Scrooge scolds him for the fact that he hasn't gotten around to installing a new alarm system.

Donald returns home and plans to get started on all those chores he has to do, but then he starts reading one of the books cluttering up his garage. He doesn't get far into reading the book before he falls asleep. Donald then has a nightmare where he is shown the consequences of failing to keep his promises. The Beagle Boys steal all of Scrooge's money, Pluto is dying of hunger, Goofy is breaking his back from having to deliver the newspapers without his bike, Daisy's house is flooded, and Grandma's garden is covered in weeds. Donald wakes up and realizes he still has a chance to do everything he's been putting off. He fixes Daisy's ladder, patches the hole in her roof, installs Scrooge's new alarm, buys some bones for Pluto, borrows Mickey's wrench and uses it to fix Goofy's bike, and finally helps Grandma plant her garden. Afterwards, he finally goes on his fishing trip.