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Original Title: | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle |
ISBN: | 0064401480 (ISBN13: 9780064401487) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1 |

Betty MacDonald
Paperback | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 4.16 | 50405 Users | 1331 Reviews
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Title | : | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1) |
Author | : | Betty MacDonald |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
Published | : | August 14th 2007 by HarperCollins (first published 1947) |
Categories | : | Childrens. Fiction |
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Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-WiggleMrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen eats v-e-r-y slowly. Mrs Piggle-Wiggle has a treatment for all of them.
The incomparable Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits. '[Now] in paperback . . . for a new generation of children to enjoy.' -- San Francisco Examiner Chronicle.
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Ratings: 4.16 From 50405 Users | 1331 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1)
My sister read a ton of children's fiction growing up. She had diverse tastes (still does), and so her books were a little bit of everything, including the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series. I was pretty much a Hardy Boys kinda girl, so our tastes almost never crossed, but now that we're both adults, I'm actually trying some of her favorite books when she was a kid. Hence my rather odd choice of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for this challenge.I LOVED it. You have this dear older widow woman who befriends pretty- I wish Mrs. Piggle Wiggle were real, and that her cures for all sorts of behaviors really worked. It would be amazing!- I loved reading this as a kid. I remember wanting a neighbor like Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. It was still fun to read as an adult. I love books that you can read at any age.- My daughter read this by herself, and she enjoyed it. She thought it was really funny. I kinda wish we had read it together. It would be a fun book to read aloud.- I recommend this to everyone!
There was a trend in children's literature in the early and mid-20th century for books about quasi-magical people who were courageous and clever and seemed to know everything about everything. It's the model that gave us Doctor Doolittle, Pippi Longstocking, and Mary Poppins, and when it works, it can produce the framework for memorable, enchanting stories.When it doesn't work, it gives us Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house, and is a great friend of children.

I remember reading this when I was little. A little cliche and silly ... but it was kind of amusing.
Having been disappointed by Betty MacDonalds The Egg and I, I returned to the book I first read 50 years ago, the one that made me adore MacDonald: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. The tales involving the tiny, eccentric widow with her upside-down house, dog Wag, cat Lightfoot, pony Spotty, delightful games, and amazing insight.Betty MacDonalds slim book delighted me as much now in late middle age as it did when I was a young girl, laughing out loud at Mrs. Piggle-Wiggles cures for wayward children: the
Dear Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! So clever, so kind! And what a fascinating look these book give you at life in the "Donna Reed Era." All the mothers are at home making pot roasts and gingerbread for their children, and the fathers work in an office and smoke pipes and read the paper after supper. The girls wear dresses and white socks and the boys wear sweaters and ironed jeans! It's swell, just swell! And YET. The problems that these frazzled mothers call Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to help with? Still so
As a parent, I have tried to steer my children toward some of the books I loved as a child, with indifferent success. I chalked it up to the generation gap, among other things. So I could hardly believe it a few years ago when my kids went mad, I mean bonkers, for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a children's book character who is like the 1940s version of Willy Wonka. As a result, I have read nearly every episode in the life of Mrs. P.-W., and I must warn anyone tempted to go down the same road that the
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