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Read Book Mrs. Piggle-Wiggles Magic MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLES MAGIC PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Betty MacDonald,Hilary Knight,Alexandra Boiger | 192 pages | 14 Aug 2007 | HarperCollins | 9780064401517 | English | New York, NY, United States Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald: | : Books Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic Mrs. Piggle Wiggle 2 by Betty MacDonald ,. Alexandra Boiger Illustrations. Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeve. 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 wh Mrs. And what better way to cure the rainy-day "waddle-I-do's" than hunt for a pirate treasure in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's upside-down house? Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published August 14th by HarperCollins first published More Details Original Title. Piggle Wiggle 2. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic , please sign up. See 1 question about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, 2. One of my favorites of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, because it introduces the well-mannered pig Lester, and ends with a treasure hunt through Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's upside down house, as the children try to help her find her husband's pirate treasure! I yearned to find a lucky gold piece wrapped in a black silk scarf as a child! In fact, I still do! Shelves: just-couldn-t-finish , children-literature , children-classics. Unlike the original Mrs. Piggle- Wiggle , in which the cures were inventive and writing quite funny, Mrs. Stick with the first one. Mar 17, Byron Norsworthy rated it liked it. My five-year old enjoyed it, but it got kind of old for me, as the stories all follow the exact same formula: WASP-y family with a common WASP-y last name and three children two boys and a girl, or two girls and a boy , submissive homemaker Mom, and grumpy, half-absent Dad, have problem with kids acting up, usually starting at the breakfast table while Mom serves them a hearty, traditional breakfast while Dad grumps and sometimes yells from behind his newspaper. Distraught Mom calls Mrs. Piggle My five-year old enjoyed it, but it got kind of old for me, as the stories all follow the exact same formula: WASP-y family with a common WASP-y last name and three children two boys and a girl, or two girls and a boy , submissive homemaker Mom, and grumpy, half-absent Dad, have problem with kids acting up, usually starting at the breakfast table while Mom serves them a hearty, traditional breakfast while Dad grumps and sometimes yells from behind his newspaper. Piggle-Wiggle after sending kids and Dad off to school and work. Kids arrive home from school and Mom, still wearing her apron from and having barely broken a sweat, serves kids a freshly baked treat. Two days later, everything's peachy again, and Dad gets to disengage and read his morning paper in peace. Feb 22, Lydia Presley rated it it was ok. I enjoyed Mrs. 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 I enjoyed Mrs. While some of it is amusing tattle- tales , after a few chapters even my niece and nephew started to get bored. That made me sad - because, as I said, I really enjoyed Mrs. Another thing I disliked, and this is more personal preference, but the 20 page chapters were really difficult to read in one sitting. The first book was perfect. I could read out loud for 20 minutes and complete a chapter before bedtime, but I was constantly having to split them up with this one. If you want to introduce your children to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, don't bother with this book - get the first. It's well worth your time. View 1 comment. Jan 29, Sarah rated it really liked it Shelves: kids , audible. This woman can do no wrong. Mar 08, Wendy Bousfield rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult. At the request of distraught parents, Mrs. Each fault is comically exaggerated. P-W cures most children with magic potions. The pattern of out-of-control children returned magically to normal became repetitive for me--but would not for a child. The former is the only chapter that would be uncomfortable to 21st century sensibilities. Jody repeatedly fakes illness to avoid school. After taking Mrs. She loans them her pig, Lester. P-W prematurely retrieves Lester, because other parents have a manners crisis. Thompson tells Mrs. My mother, an elementary school teacher, believed passionately that reading to children was essential to their intellectual and moral development. Though I was never introduced to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, my mother read aloud stories with the same comically exaggerated didacticism. The Goops, Goofus and Gallant, and the Watchbirds books are no longer in print. In contrast, the original Mrs. The friend who loaned me MRS. P-W and delight in making up bad habits for her to cure. Rather like being a scold like the Watchbirds, Mrs. P-W loves and respects children. When their failures are due to inexperience rather than willfulness, she helps them find solutions and save face. The Mrs. P-W books would make a wonderful gift for a child in upper elementary school. Aug 18, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: all-timefavorites , own , middle-grade , read-aloud. Oh, dear Mrs. So charming! I absolutely love the little details of these, and MacDonald's superb writing! This is the charming book in which Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle runs out of money, and the children search her house for more pirate treasure. Only in a book like this could a little magical woman live in an upside-down house built by her husband, who used to be a pirate! View all 5 comments. I recently read several stories with magical nannies coming to the rescue of families in need. I thought it would be fun to compare each of their pros and cons and see how they lined up So funny! Nurse Matilda: -Likable nanny. Mary Poppins: -I did not like the nanny watch the movie instead, if you want to like Mary Poppins; Julie Andrews did a great job enhancing and making the character likable. Then you should follow me! Because I have hundreds more just like this one. So Follow or Friend me here on GoodReads! Jun 28, Heather rated it liked it. This was my first encounter with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I wonder if I'd read the original book if that might have helped me appreciate this one a bit more. I certainly expected Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle herself to be more of a character in the book. With the exception of the final chapter, she is pretty much relegated to brief phone conversations with parents at their wit's end--sometimes even just a second-hand summary of what she said. I also expected Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's cures to be somewhat more tr This was my first encounter with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's cures to be somewhat more transferable to actual children, but they are to be fair, as the title suggests wildly magical. They are also somewhat repetitive. With the notable exceptions of Lester, the charming pig with impeccable table manners, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's treasure hunt in her house, the cures are slight variations of magical powders and elixirs. Nevertheless, there is a vintage charm to the book. It is one to be enjoyed for what it is rather than criticized too sharply for what it is not. Jul 13, Gretchen rated it really liked it Shelves: children-s. Nostalgic, humorous, and a great read-aloud. My kids 6, 10, 13 all begged for more when I had to stop reading. I remember having my second grade teacher read these books to us. I loved them then, loved them now. As a parent, I appreciated the fact that behaviors and habits were brought into the spotlight as less than desirable. Obviously, the cures are not realistic though I wish some of them were!! I also enjoy the fact that these stories capture a time perio Nostalgic, humorous, and a great read-aloud. The Anti-Book. Raphael Simon. Lunch Money. Andrew Clements. Akissi: Even More Tales of Mischief. Marguerite Abouet. The House of Serendipity. Veggie Power. Life of Zarf: Troll Overboard. Lauren Magaziner. The Roald Dahl Audio Collection. Frozen 2 Disney Frozen 2. Vasco, Leader of the Tribe. Anne-Laure Bondoux. Courageous Princess Volume 2. Rod Espinosa. The Little Grey Men. Kathleen Duey. Kate Beasley. Dragon World. Tamara Macfarlane.
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