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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Pdf Free Download MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Betty MacDonald,Alexandra Boiger | 128 pages | 14 Aug 2007 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780064401487 | English | New York, NY, United States Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Series by Betty MacDonald And yet, they are charming somehow. Piggle-Wiggle's calling is getting kids to do what they're supposed to do, using a combination of common sense and magic. I wonder if my kids liked her because she is the unrelenting authority figure they never had in me? Or maybe they enjoyed hearing about the rotten kids getting their comeuppance? If you think you'd like to read Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, start with the first book. But don't even bother if you're sensitive to political incorrectness. I don't remember the specifics, but I'm sure I cringed over a few passages. When that happens, I tend to tell the kids what's making me uncomfortable, so it becomes part of the experience. I never read Mrs. So maybe we're not so incompatible after all, these children and me. Jan 20, Ann rated it really liked it Shelves: k-6 , fantasy , classics. I remember adoring the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books when I was little, except for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm because it didn't have any magical cures in it. I was surprised to find that this first book in the series didn't include them either. I didn't love it as much as I think I will love re-reading the next couple of books, but I still think the little stories are really fun. I love the old-fashioned feeling of these books. However, the radish cure story is the grossest thing ever and I had to cri I remember adoring the Mrs. However, the radish cure story is the grossest thing ever and I had to cringe my way through it. I just read this book for the second time -- the last time was in 3rd grade!! I re-read it for a challenge that had a "book from your childhood" category. And now I remember why I enjoyed Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle so much! She doesn't have any children of her own, but the neighborhood children love her and come to visit every day. And all their mothers call her for cures for such childhood ailments as: "won't-pick-up-toys-itis"; "answer-backers disease"; and "never-want-to- go-to-bedders' syndrome. Piggle-Wiggle has a cure for them all! Just an adorable book, I'm so glad I read it again! Oct 04, Jeremy Hurd- McKenney rated it liked it Shelves: teenfic-children-s-lit , read-in , cult-classics. When standard child abuse is no longer effective to rid your little ones of their bad habits, it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to the rescue! In stark contrast to the aggressive vitriol and lies employed by Mary Poppins, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a friendly, unpolished exterior, which she uses to her advantage to get children to bend to her will through a variety of subtle tortures and passive-aggressive homespun remedies. The Radish Cure was particularly disturbing. One of the children mentioned in the boo When standard child abuse is no longer effective to rid your little ones of their bad habits, it's Mrs. One of the children mentioned in the book is named Paraphernalia. 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! My sister read a ton of children's fiction growing up. She had diverse tastes still does , and so her books were a little bit of everything, including the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series. I was pretty much a Hardy Boys kinda girl, so our tastes almost never crossed, but now that we're both adults, I'm actually trying some of her favorite books when she was a kid. Hence my rather odd choice of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for this challenge. You have this dear older widow woman who befriends pretty m My sister read a ton of children's fiction growing up. You have this dear older widow woman who befriends pretty much every child in her small town, invites them into her upside-down house the chandeliers are on the floor, etc. Eventually, word gets out that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle knows children, so whenever children in the town start to rebel, inevitably the parents seek out Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for her "cures. He'll have no choice but to clean his space. And the once sweet little girl who starts back-talking like crazy, so Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loans the family her parrot who is the queen of back-talk and shows the child just how nasty the habit is. You've got the radish cure for the little girl who refuses to bathe and whose parents plant radishes in the accumulating dirt on her skin one night, and the children who don't want to go to bed on time so the parents let them stay up as late as they want without saying a word until the children are so exhausted and crabby they beg to go to bed on time. The book is organized a little like the Mary Poppins books, but if I were to choose a favorite between the two, it would be Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle hands-down. She's a charming, delightful woman whose love of children and her neighbors is absolutely genuine. The lessons learned are all valuable since they address bad habits, and this first book in the series has "practical" cures instead of magic cures like in the later books. I'm not sure that I'll read any further in the series, but I highly recommend the first Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle as a delightful read for your little ones, especially read out-loud for story time once chapter at a time! Jun 21, Keturah Lamb rated it it was amazing. I had to wait a loooong time on it from the library though. Anyways, this book is super cute. All the mothers call her and ask how to fix their ornery children May 04, Brittany rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-aloud-revival My girls loved this book! Very entertaining read aloud. I love Mrs Piggle Wiggle so much! Jul 26, Crystal rated it liked it Shelves: childrens , humor , classics , fiction. I loved these books as a kid and felt like re-reading something light this summer, so I checked this one out. These hold up and don't gender roles! I really think some adult folks need to be sent to a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for a cure to their ailments :. View 2 comments. May 21, Tiffany rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-with-kids. My 10 year old absolutely loved this book. Her favorite parts were the funny names for the children's "maladies" that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has to cure. We read it as a read-aloud, but I was thrilled to see how much of it she could easily read back to me. A perfect book for a first chapter book. Piggle Wiggle were real, and that her cures for all sorts of behaviors really worked. It would be amazing! I remember wanting a neighbor like Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. It was still fun to read as an adult. I love books that you can read at any age. She thought it was really funny. I kinda wish we had read it together. It would be a fun book to read aloud. There was a trend in children's literature in the early and midth century for books about quasi-magical people who were courageous and clever and seemed to know everything about everything. It's the model that gave us Doctor Doolittle, Pippi Longstocking, and Mary Poppins, and when it works, it can produce the framework for memorable, enchanting stories. When it doesn't work, it gives us Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house, and is a great friend of children. Eac There was a trend in children's literature in the early and midth century for books about quasi-magical people who were courageous and clever and seemed to know everything about everything. Each of the chapters in the book are about the parents of a child with a particular problem behavior. The parents call Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for help, and she prescribes some type of "cure" for it. That sounds sort of preachy and tiresome, but it's actually worse than that, because each of the "cures" is pretty awful. Piggle-Wiggle trying to stifle laughter at the sight of an emaciated child, who's been given progressively smaller and smaller meals for days, struggling to stay on the back of a horse. I recognize the book is trying to be whimsical, but it comes across as Goofus and Gallant Go To Hell, crossed with the meaner episodes of Punk'd. I'm not sure why this one has found an audience -- it's still in print, and here on this page, its average rating is well north of four stars. But to me, it was deeply unpleasant, the kind of thing I only finished because a it was short, and b I wanted to see just how much of a train wreck it would become.
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