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Jun 17, 2010

Kirei rated it:

As always, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle is ready to help mothers in distress. And in this book, the kids get to help her in the last chapter.

This book is fun and well-written, but one thing I did NOT like about this book is its over-reliance on medicine (potions and powders) to cure the children. Only two chapters (The Lester Chapter and the Last Chapter) don't deal with some sort of magical medicine.

Even when I was a child, I always preferred the solutions that seemed like t More...

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Feb 22, 2010

Lydia rated it:

I enjoyed Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. I thought the book was cute, easy to read and the solutions, although out there (hello Radish Cure) were believable enough.

That said, I was disappointed in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic. I should have known by the title that this book would be different.

Instead of the cures outlined in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, in this book Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle resorts to magic to cure the naughty children. While some of it is amusing (tattle-tales), after a few chapt More...

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Sep 06, 2007

Amanda rated it:

I read this series to my kids at the beginning of every school year. They love it! The whole series is great for tacking some of those "quirks" that kids have such as tattling, picking up after themselves, listening, crying (over the tiniest of things!) and bad table manners! What a fun way to teach kids how to treat themselves and others! Classics from my childhood that have stood the test of time!

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May 04, 2010

Emily rated it:

After we read Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle aloud, my son was eager to read this one, the second in the series. To my pleasure, I found I liked it lots more than the first one, even though it follows much the same formula as its predecessor, with most of the chapters concerning a child with a problem behavior, the mother casting about for solution, and finally getting help from Piggle-Wiggle which results in the child's cure. One notable difference in this book is that, as the title suggests, most of the More...

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Mar 22, 2010

Jessi rated it:

Oh my goodness. I had forgotten how much I loved the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books. Every book is a collection of children with bad manners who are taught how to behave through some magical cure provided by Mrs. P-W. This particular book includes the tattle-tale cure (every time the children tattle, a big cloud with a tail forms above their heads), the interrupter cure (when someone tries to interrupt, their mouth either stays open or opens and shuts without noise), the sloppy eater cure (pig teaches More...

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Apr 25, 2011

Miramira rated it:

When I was a kid, I remember my mother enthusing at great length about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and absolutely insisting that I read the series. Then, about a week later, after she had re-read the series, she absolutely forbade me to ever read any but the first book because, "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is a witch!" So, until this month, I never read any but the first book, having thoroughly forgotten about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle since my childhood. I must say that I'm glad to have read them all now (wit More...

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Feb 07, 2012

Alyson rated it:

I've had trouble with kids being tattle-tales and bossing, so I thought it was time to dust off the old Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books. I'd forgotten how much fun these are to read and listen to. :) And it was kind of astounding, actually, to hear my older kids, when they came home from school, laugh and sigh and remember how much they love these books—even my 16YO son said, "I'm so glad you found Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! I love those books!" Well, knock me over with a feather. Plus, don't these More...

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Dec 01, 2009

Natalie rated it:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has great tricks up her sleeves. Magic powders, special pills, and an extremely polite pig help the children overcome tattling, interrupting, heedless clumsiness and bad table manners.

My family read chapters at dinner and everyone loved it! Some of the stories were so fantastic as to enthrall our 7-year-old. And some of the names were so outlandish as to make our teens giggle. And the attitudes of the parents, especially the fathers, elicited an occasional guff More...

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Nov 22, 2010

Anastasia rated it:

So boring and sooooo out-of-date. We were trying to find something chapter-book-like that we could read to our son that didn't have a lot of advanced themes in it that weren't appropriate for his age (4). It turns out this book is full of sexist themes (appropriate for the 1940s perhaps) like an 8 year old girl being told she's going to make a good wife because she can bake cookies, and a man telling his wife she's fat, etc. Beyond all that, the story is simply boring. My son isn't interested in More...

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Apr 02, 2010

Kelso rated it:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books are pretty fun to read. I really enjoy the obsolete vernacular and archaic humor. The only disturbing thing about this particular book is Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s tendency to provide various pills, potions and powders to magically cure children of the character flaws. I realize at that time, about the only pills you might give to a child was aspirin. Now we have pills to replace parenting and they are terribly overused. I don’t really blame Betty MacDonald for writing it thi More...

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Aug 18, 2007

Diana rated it:

this book made me so happy when i was a little reader... i read it over and over.

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Dec 16, 2009

Jenna rated it:

I was obsessed with this series as a kid, I read them over and over.

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Mar 02, 2009

Yana rated it:

Reading this to my daughter now, we've recently started in on the chapter books -- this was a series I absolutely loved as a kid. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle was first published in the late 1940s and (as I'm finding with a lot of older books) the PC grown up in me is kind of freaked out by some of its ethics. Besides the to be expected gender stuff, there's also blase references to spanking -- and the moral of one of the chapters, "the tattle tale cure," is to not tell on people, even when yo More...

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Jan 17, 2011

Jenny rated it:

For me this is a 3.5, maybe even a 4 star book. I loved this book as a kid. My girls and I just listened to it on CD and we all enjoyed it. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is pure fun. As a parent, I wish I had a Mrs.Piggle-Wiggle to call and solve my parenting dilemmas. I could use some powder to cure Tattle-tale-itis and definitely some kind of something to get rid of whining. :) And my kids loved her clever cures and what happened to the kids after they took her different medicines. Such a fun boo More...

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Jul 01, 2011

Cassie rated it:

I was introduced to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle when I was in second grade. I think the series is better when read out loud and you just listen. It's an okay series when you read it by yourself, but better if read out loud. I would recommend it to children ages 8-11. You do not have to follow this age group, but I think you should for the best accuracy of your understanding. So, I'll see you when you come around the mountain!

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Feb 27, 2011

Richelle rated it:

I downloaded the audio version of this from Audible and my 7 year old and 5 year old begged to listen to another chapter of this story every day in the car on the way to and from school. Since it was first published in the 1950's era, family dynamics in the story are different than today, but good behavior and manners are timeless. This book is silly and fun enough to get kids to think about those topics on their own with no lecture from parents. After listening to the chapter about Lester the p More...

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Jan 08, 2009

Jen rated it:

I keep reading and re-reading this; it's so simple, yet so imaginative. Everyone will recognize the obstinacies of their own youth (hopefully outgrown now) and laugh at the different "cures" invented. Even the ridiculousness of the various parent figures keeps me interested as I get older.

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Dec 05, 2009

Wyatt rated it:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald and is about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle using certain things which I won't say help children around town with certain problems which I won't say either which makes the parents' lives a whole lot easier. I like how throughout the book how Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle just enjoys helping the parent and she loves the "darling" children. She will do anything to help cure anything. If you read the book you'll see what I mean or just listen to my favor More...

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Feb 12, 2010

Teresa rated it:

I found this as I was unpacking this week. This was one of my absolute favorites as a child, and as I read the first few pages to my daughter, I was surprised by how perfectly I remembered it. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to appreciate it--we'll buy the whole set!

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Nov 30, 2011

Christina rated it:

I loved these books growing up so cute they are in a a box upstairs in my attic with other books that I couldn't bring myself to get rid of. Hopefully my future kids will want to read the books in that box and will enjoy Mrs . Pggle Wiggle as much as I did as a kid

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Jun 10, 2011

Emily rated it:

Not as inventive as the first book. Less imaginative cures because everything is magic powder, which makes it less interesting. Also, the chapters are really long, which isn't really a critique of the book but I like to get the bedtime routine over with, you know?

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Dec 03, 2011

Rachel rated it:

This Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book was a favorite from my childhood! I can remember sitting down and listening to my mother read to my brothers and me and we absolutely loved these stories. The Thought-You-Saiders Cure is still a favorite to this day :)

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Aug 14, 2011

Anna rated it:

Paraphernaila Grotto, Gregory Moohead, Ermintrude Bags, Cormorant Broomrack, Chuckie Keystop, Allen Wetherill Crankminor, Pergola Wingsproggle, Worthington Gardenfield....

Seriously? How can you NOT love a book where the kids have names like these?

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Jul 05, 2011

Katie rated it:

This wasn't as good as the first book we read. My 5 year old got bored with it, though he was enamored with the first one. It was still enjoyable to read, but I was bothered that she had "magic" cures in this one with powders and other things, when she had normal cures in the first book that I could actually implement myself in my parenting. It was written for kids though, so still fun for them to read.

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Aug 16, 2009

Lushyloo13 rated it:

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books are the best books for kidsi n the world! they are funny while teaching you a lesson. They are good for all ages and you will love the next book of the piggle wiggle books even more then the one you just read! I am serious!

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May 09, 2010

Lindsay rated it:

This was a great read aloud for my kids. Ages 3, 6, 8 and 10 were laughing their heads off...although the 3 year old was mostly laughing at her siblings reactions. It was nice to find something they all enjoyed that was new to me too.

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Jul 14, 2010

Tiffiny rated it:

Here again Ryan and I are conflicted - he really liked this book and wants to listen to it again. I didn't really like it. Though it had some good messages, the presentation was old-fashioned and degrading.

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Sep 02, 2010

Bobbi rated it:

I read this to my children. They really liked it, even though it is old fashioned. It was a hard book to read aloud because there are incredibly long sentences and very little punctuation.

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Aug 21, 2008

Stacy rated it:

The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books are my favorite series for a slightly older childrens audience (ages 6 to 10). I say this; however, I still read them myself. I have fond memories of my mom reading these stories to me everynight: The first night we would read up until Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle was called; the second night we would read about the cure.

My favorite stories from this particular book are: The Thought-You-Saiders Cure; The Tattletale Cure and The Interrupters.

I also own T More...

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Sep 21, 2011

Sydney rated it:

I thought that this book was perfect for me. It was the perfect combination of silliness and details that weren't too much i would rate this book a solid number 4.

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