Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm

My reading of the third book in Betty MacDonald’s Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series was the triumph of hope over experience. While better than Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic, which depends on silly magical potions, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm is hardly funny at all. I will give it an extra star for its opposition to corporal punishment and its advocacy of natural consequences for misbehavior. But it’s not half as good as the original Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and she’s even left her wonderful upside-down house for this farm! Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. I won’t be back for No. 4.

I want to *be* Mrs. P., magic or no. But when I read about her and the children, I want the magic. This is a 2.5 because of Sendak's illustrations, but if you're not absolutely devoted to the whole series, you can skip this. It just goes on and on about natural consequences of not doing your best, because there's less room for error when away from doting parents and out in the country.

Loved it as a kid, not so much as a read aloud to the girls. More silly and disrespectful ways of speaking etc. Ryan doesn't like.

I have loved this book ever since I had read it when I was young! Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows, pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. So whatever the problem-from pet forgetter- it is to fraidycat-ness the parents know to call Ms. Piggle-Wiggle to solve the problem. Very entertaining chapter book from the first page to the last!

I find the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories a little too repetitive and dated feeling, but my daughter enjoys them. I do like some of the humor in the books, and some of the little details are quite clever.

Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside-down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows and pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. So whatever the problem-from pet forgetter-itis to fraidycat-ness-the parents all exclaim, "Better call Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle!"

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it".