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Why 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.
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Are you there God, its me, Margaret
Huckleberry Finn
Heather has two Mommies
Why 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 ...more
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 curr ...more
And YET. The problems that these frazzled mothers call Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to help with? Still so curr ...more
Delightful as ever! Read it aloud to the kids (8 and 4), they both loved it. As a kid I thought this book was hilarious, as an adult I found that I kept pausing and looking meaningfully at my children, to see if they were paying attention to what happens to little boys and girls who quarrel or don't pick up their toys! I love how full of details about life back in the 1950's these books are: the mothers are home all day, cleaning and cooking. Children eat snacks like thick slices of gingerbread
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Mary gives it 69 stars!
Re-read aloud to my kids (9 & 6) in 2020. I died laughing every time a mom called another mom for advice, bc of the hilarious names of the children.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps parents lovingly and playfully teach disobedient children the consequences of their actions. The series just wasn't as good aften MacDonald gave her magic in the second book. ...more
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps parents lovingly and playfully teach disobedient children the consequences of their actions. The series just wasn't as good aften MacDonald gave her magic in the second book. ...more
Among my top favorites as a kid, I am now having a blast reading this with my son for the first time.
Yeah yeah, I loved this as a kid. Who didn't?
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Mar 04, 2008
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Kerry (The Roaming Librarian) O'Donnell
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