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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle #2)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatments are unusual, but they work! Who better than a pig, for instance, to teach a piggy little boy table manners? And what better way to cure the rainy-day "waddle-...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
June 3rd 1994
by HarperCollins
(first published January 1st 1949)
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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 they really could happen in r...more
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 they really could happen in r...more
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 chapters even my niece and neph...more
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 chapters even my niece and neph...more
Sep 06, 2007
Amanda
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
parents of children who need to learn manners! :)
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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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeveMrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatment are unusual, but they work Who better than a pig, for instance, to teach a piggy little boy table manners? And wha...moreMrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeveMrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The c...more
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 c...more
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
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 (with the exce...more
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 double as...more
I loved the original Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle because she actually offered realistic(ish) solutions to the distraught parents. This one, however, is all about magical powders and cures which, while amusing, are not particularly constructive. For example, the "heedless" girl who runs around klutzily breaking everything is administered the "Cure for Heedless Breakeritis" powder and magically becomes graceful the next day, never to klutz it up again.
Sorry, but that's just not a compelling story.
We still...more
Sorry, but that's just not a compelling story.
We still...more
Dec 01, 2009
Natalie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Children everywhere
Recommended to Natalie by:
NEH Classics list
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 guffaw from Dad.
I'm...more
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 guffaw from Dad.
I'm...more
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
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
This was the latest audio-book the kids and I listened to. I didn't realize it was the second one in a series, because it was a book that could stand alone. My 7 year old really enjoyed this book. My nearly 10 year old pretended not to (it wasn't "cool" enough), but he was really listening rather intently. As for me, where can I sign up for some of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic powders to cure my kids of such things as whining or messiness? In fact, where can I get some powders to cure myself of my...more
this book made me so happy when i was a little reader... i read it over and over.
I was obsessed with this series as a kid, I read them over and over.
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 you come home...more
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle continues to help parents with their difficult children. This time the cures she offers have powers of their own: a polite pig named Lester teaches a boy with terrible table manners how to eat, and and "ignorance tonic" makes a boy who doesn't want to go to school slow and dumb. Ha! In the final chapter Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle invites all the children over on a rainy Saturday to search for hidden treasure. There is danger (her financial security is at stake) and such fun.
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My girls LOVED this book. And I admit that I got a kick out of reading it as well. I'm not even sure how it ended up on by bookshelf, but I'm glad it was there! Ellie is determined to check out every Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book at the school library now. The girls always begged me to read just one more chapter every night. There were some great lessons taught, but it certainly didn't feel like it when reading the book. I would most definitely recommend this book!
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 book! Miche...more
The "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" series of books was among my favorites as a kid, so I experienced great waves of nostalgia as I read this book to Noah. Her "magical" cures to children's bad habits are hilarious, and they made me wish I had a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle in my neighborhood! Some words I had to change or explain as I read, to help Noah understand (this book was written in 1949), but overall, very accessible. We'll definitely be reading more in this series!
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!
This book makes me smile every time I open it. The old-fashioned innocence of a simpler time mixed with the most spectacularly creative magical cures ever gets me every time. I wish every neighborhood had a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for correcting bad behavior. Plus, the last chapter with the treasure hunt for the last of the hidden money is nothing short of a child's dream come true. By far my favorite of all her books.
This is a fun little book but I wonder if I enjoyed it more as a parent then children would. The stories were humorous but they also pointed out little things that children do that adults find annoying like tattling, interrupting, etc. I think you would have to carefully introduce stories like this to children in order to make them enjoyable for them.
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
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.
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 favorite part. It'll help....more
3.5 stars/
I am pretty sure we should have read the original first and presume it is much better then this collection. Each chapter was a different household with a problem that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle solved with her special sort of magic. It is presumed you know the back story on Mrs. Piggy-Wiggle as you do not learn much more about her in this book.
Some of the chapters had us laughing out loud - we were in love with the book....then other chapters fell very flat.
I am pretty sure we should have read the original first and presume it is much better then this collection. Each chapter was a different household with a problem that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle solved with her special sort of magic. It is presumed you know the back story on Mrs. Piggy-Wiggle as you do not learn much more about her in this book.
Some of the chapters had us laughing out loud - we were in love with the book....then other chapters fell very flat.
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!
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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