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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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I hadn't read any of this series since I was little - I remembered they were funny, and I remembered Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's upside down house, but the actual storyline escaped me. It turns out that it's more episodic - each chapter showcases Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's stricks for solving different behavior issues (not cleaning your room, not taking a bath, eating slowly, etc.) Her solutions are funny, over-the-top, and of course very effective. The audio version is lots of fun and would make a great fam
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This book didn't age all that well. Almost every chapter has parents threatening to spank their children for just being ordinary children, and no parent ever tries to talk to the child and explain why it's important to go to bed, or share, or asks a child why he isn't eating or supervises the kids to see if they pick up their toys. They're all totally stumped by such ordinary things, which I guess is the point, because it allows for Mrs Piggle-Wiggle's wacky solutions. I did like that the soluti
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Loved these books when I was growing up. I'll never forget the story about the child who wouldn't wash behind their ears. Mrs Piggle Wiggle plants radish seeds in the dirt! Wow, that story made such an impression on me. Needless to say, I wash behind my ears every day. Lesson learned
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Apr 26, 2008
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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