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Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Written by Betty MacDonald
Narrated by Karen White
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with a brand-new bundle of wonderfully magical cures for any bad habit-from watching too much TV, to picky eating, to fear of trying new things. And while Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is working her magic, the children are working some of their own, planning a boisterous birthday bash for everyone's favorite problem solver!
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Betty MacDonald
A longtime resident of Washington State, Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) authored four humorous, autobiographical bestsellers and several children's books, including the popular Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This has always been my favorite book. I love how it is written with such whimsical creativity.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It was ok.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was a big hit in my family. My kids especially loved the Radish Cure and the Fighter-Quarrelers Cure. The book was a little formulaic and ended abruptly, but there was so much laughing, it hardly mattered.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So funny!!!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mrs. Piggle Wiggle was used as a read aloud to my third graders. This is a great way for them to think about themselves and how would they feel if they did some of these things. I enjoyed this chapter book and the ideas to use throughout the classroom. It's a great way to introduce response to reading and incorporate writing workshop into daily 5. Also, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle has a little humor to the chapters which make it interesting for students!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My 6 and 9 year olds absolutely love these books!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5These books are kind of oddly meta to read as a kid. Like, you're reading about how grownups are dealing with kids and their less-than-likeable behaviors. What is the goal here? Purely to entertain? To let kids know how they're supposed to be acting? I read these as a child and remember thinking either "that's something I don't do" or "yeah, I do that, and I don't care." I'll read the rest eventually.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I remember reading this as a kid, and it was one of my favorite books. It was fun with a lot of advendture
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is an odd lady who children love. She has cures for children's diseases like not cleaning their room or just bad behavior in general. It is a funny book and very enjoyable to read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I haven't read this book since (I think) second grade, but after picking up a used copy with a thought of passing it along to a friend's child, I was recaptured by the simple stories and the 1940s viewpoint.
We can't even picture the possibility of someone like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle -- the odd little lady with the upside down house where all the children love to play, the lady all the hapless parents call for advice and "cures" for their children's bad behavior. Today, an older lady like that would be considered, at a minimum, mentally questionable and, at worst, dangerous. With so many experts giving conflicting advice to parents about their children's behavior -- in fact, so many conflicting opinions about what IS bad behavior in children -- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's odd but oddly sensible cures, which depend on the idea that a child allowed to indulge bad behavior until the negative consequences are apparent to them, could be considered almost cruel.
Thinking about how a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle would appear in 2010 gave me pause when thinking about giving this book to a child today. I'm not sure the stories would be as appealing now as they were to me then (since, when I was 7, I concentrated mostly on how silly the children were and all the delights of the infinitely patient, understanding, and wonderful Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle). I think I'll hunt down the rest of the books and, one day when a particular child is a little older, pass them along as historical documents. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of my favorite childhood series about a woman who has a magic touch for curing children of their nasty habits and bad attitudes. A hilarious read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kearsten says: This is cute - a bit too silly for me, but my five-year-old *really* enjoyed it! Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has some very unusual cures for what ails the children in this book. While her cures are effective in the book, some of them were a bit creepy/scary!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes, I know they're for kids. But I love them. Plus, I just recently completed the set, so I figure I can reread them all again now, and then I probably won't touch them until I have my own kids. I think my favorite story in this one is the Raddish cure. It's interesting to read this as an adult and notice the consistencies in parental dynamics of the families with problem children. Mom notices the problem and deals with it, but first she calls all the other moms and asks them what to do. Dad either a) tells the mother nothing is actually wrong and it's all in her head, or b) takes one look at the problem and heads out to golf with his buddies. Maybe if the dads in this town paid more attention to their kids they wouldn't have so many problems, hm?But then again, it was the 1950s. And at least the problems were easily solved.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meet Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a widow who never had children. All the children of the neighborhood flock to her unique house to play. More importantly, the mothers call her because she has a knack for "curing" whatever ails the children, from talking back to parents, to not picking up toys. One of my favorites is the Radish Cure. A delightful read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is cute - a bit too silly for me, but S *really* enjoyed it! Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has some very unusual cures for what ails the children in this book. While her cures are effective in the book, some of them were a bit creepy/scary!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a hilarious, rollicking-good-fun read aloud. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and knows everything there is to know about children. She also has the most wonderful cures for common childhood ailments such as won't-pick-up-toy-itis and won't-take-a-bath-itis. Told in an episodic format, each chapter is it's own little story. I believe some of the chapters have been published as picture books also. My 7yo enjoyed this very much. We both laughed out loud and both have the same favourite chapter which is the story of the little girl who wouldn't wash and ended up having radishes growing out of her forehead. I've read this book several times now but haven't read any of the sequels but I think I may have to change that. I also must mention that the Hilary Knight (best known for the Eloise books) illustrations are adorable.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yay for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! This one features "The Slow-Eater Tiny-Bite-Taker," which is one of my all-time favorites.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5These are marvelous tales.