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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
Present Epithetical Books Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1)
| Title | : | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1) |
| Author | : | Betty MacDonald |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | August 14th 2007 by HarperCollins (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Fiction |
Narrative Supposing Books Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1)
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.
Rating Epithetical Books Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1)
Ratings: 4.16 From 50405 Users | 1331 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #1)
Cute book. Somewhat dated, but the character of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is still intriguing. I'm glad the first chapter explains her funny house and her way with children, though I wish more of that had been included in the rest of the chapters -- they got a bit formulaic. Her "cures" for children's "ailments" were amusing though. Some were a bit off-the-wall, but my favorite was the last chapter where parents wrote down their children's petty and dramatic arguments one day and then re-enacted themI give Betty Macdonald 5 out of 5 birds for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! I read this one with my four and three year old (she only lost interest once or twice). This book had a few more pages in between pictures which was a stretch for us, but the story was engaging enough for us to continue. We loved reading about the cures. I've had fun claiming to my children, "If you don't do this..... enter literally everything I ask...... I will call Mrs Piggle Wiggle." It's worked like a charm the past few days.
Banned books:Are you there God, its me, MargaretHuckleberry FinnHeather has two MommiesWhy are people wasting their time on those well meaning books when Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is still out there on shelves, unchallenged, messing with people's heads?! I read this odd little book when I was about eight and STILL have recurring nightmares about The Radish Cure. I just reread it today, trying to vanquish my fears, and now I'm afraid to go to sleep.I will not go into details about The Radish Cure except
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
Even better than I remember them. I love all the kids' utterly ridiculous names. The kid digs them too. Hopefully we can correct her with the Won't-Pick-Up-Her-Toys Cure.
Its 1947: the war has been won by the good guys, the depression was over, everyone was rich and had a big car, families were gigantic, no one was ethnic (at least in this part of town), and moms must have been worried sick about raising their kids the All American Right Way. In steps Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle with all sorts of amazing cures for selfishness, not going to bed, not picking up toys, not bathing (my favorite story in the whole bunch). Voila - problem solved! The mothers can go back to their
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