Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
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Author: Betty MacDonaldIllustrator: Hilary Knight
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1985-08-09
ISBN: 0064401480
Number of pages: 128
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Reviews of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Book Review: Not for my family..
Summary: 1 Stars
While I'm sure I'll get rude comments for not liking the book, it wasn't for my family.
I purchased the audio off of ****** and sat down with my 2 girls, 4 and 6 to listen to a new book. Within 5 minutes, I turned it off and dumped it.
I didn't like that Mr. Piggle Wiggle died after he buried his treasure. I didn't like the little girl that visits Mrs. Piggle Wiggle doesn't think her mother is her real mother. She wants to know why a real mother would want her to do the dishes. She also wants to run away, because she hates doing the dishes.
Didn't make it past anything else. I'd heard enough after my 4 year old sat on the floor and told me she was running away...
Summary of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house ans 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.Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has been wildly popular with children and adults for over 50 years. Children adore her because she understands them--and because her upside-down house is always filled with the smell of freshly baked cookies, and her backyard with buried treasure. Grownups love her because her magical common sense solutions to children's problems succeed when their own cajoling and yelling don't. For the child who refuses to bathe, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle recommends letting her be. Wait until the dirt on her body has accumulated to half an inch, then scatter radish seeds on her arms and head. When the plants start sprouting, the nonbather is guaranteed to change her mind about that bath.
Hilary Knight's (Eloise, Sunday Morning) delightful pictures provide lively, droll accompaniment to Betty MacDonald's refreshing stories. Whether Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is curing Answer-Backers or Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Takers, her remedies always work like a charm. More than one parent over the years has surreptitiously turned to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle when Dr. Spock failed to come through. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter
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