Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Name: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Author: Betty MacDonald
ISBN: 9780807211793

Author: Betty MacDonald

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 2 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 12/13/2005

Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories, Children's Humor, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Perfect for fans of Mary Poppins and Nanny McPhee, this classic series is all about learning and problem-solving. Young readers will enjoy giggling along.

Meet Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! She lives in an upside-down house with a kitchen that is always full of freshly baked cookies. She was even married to a pirate once! Best of all, she knows everything there is to know about children.

When Mary turns into an Answer-Backer or Dick becomes Selfish or Allen decides to be a Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has the perfect cure. And her solutions always work, with plenty of laughs along the way. This is the book that started it all!

Listen to the other books in the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle!

About The Author

Betty MacDonald was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in various places in the West. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories were first told to her daughters, Anne and Joan. MacDonald is also the author of The Egg and I, Anybody Can Do Anything, Nancy and Plum, and Onions in the Stew. Mrs. MacDonald died in 1958.Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, A Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of The Forgotton Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on September 10, 2008

Banned books: 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 a......more

Goodreads review by emma on December 27, 2021

honestly, i think the mrs. piggle-wiggle books represent not only the peak of comedy, but the single most effective means of getting me to grow a conscience and to participate in what can be generally referred to as "good behavior" ever achieved in the history of the world. never has didactic content......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on April 01, 2019

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......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on June 21, 2024

Having been disappointed by Betty MacDonald’s The Egg and I, I returned to the book I first read 50 years ago, the one that made me adore MacDonald: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. The tales involving the tiny, eccentric widow with her upside-down house, dog Wag, cat Lightfoot, pony Spotty, delightful games, an......more

Goodreads review by Janssen on March 28, 2023

Oh, this was so fun to read. I've always loved these books and it's so fun to see my little girl loving it too.......more