Mrs PiggleWiggle Author:Betty MacDonald The incomparable Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits. [Now] in paperback . . . for a new generation of children to enjoy.' 'San Francisco Examiner Chronicle. Meet Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! She's the kin... more »d of grown-up you would like to have for a friend-and all her friends are children. She is a little lady with brown sparkly eyes. She lives in an upside-down house, with a kitchen that is always full of freshly baked cookies. Her husband was a pirate, and she likes to have her friends dig in the back yard for the pirate treasure he buried there.Best of all, she knows everything there is to know about children. When a distraught parent calls her because Mary has turned into an Answer-Backer or Dick has become Selfish or Allen has decided to be a Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has the answer. And her solutions always work, with plenty of laughs along the way.So join the crowd at Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's house-and enjoy the comical, common-sense cures that have won her so many friends.« less
This is a childhood classic!! I agree with the other member that states some of you are taking this way to seriously. This book is a true treasure in which it helps show kids how other can see them when they talk back, are selfish, never want to go to bed, are fighters/quarrelers or my favorite do not like to pick up their toys. Much in the same way as Mary Poppins gave a spoon full of sugar- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has her "cures". To say that this book is about a witch and witchcraft not letting a child read it would be like not letting a child read the Wizard of Oz. (maybe we should band it too since we all know the scarecrow and tin man could walk and talk- witchcraft there anyone? lol)
If you want a lighthearted way to show kids how they are acting, or just want a laugh out loud book to read out loud(this is a GREAT book for a teacher to read to a class), then by all means READ IT!!!