Betty MacDonald
(1908 - 1958)
Betty MacDonald was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children’s books.
Bibliography
Best in Children’s Books Volume 36 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Brothers Grimm
Betty MacDonald
Tony Palazzo
Et al
Robin Jacques
Richard Scarry
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 4 (1953)
A collection of humorous and nonsense stories and verse. Includes a selection from Mr. Popper's Penguins, with illustrations by Robert Lawson.
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Richard Atwater
Walter R. Brooks
Richard Hughes
Hugh Lofting
Betty MacDonald
Laura E. Richards
Carl Sandburg
Various
Carolyn Wells
Robert McCloskey
John Tenniel
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
Et al
The Egg and I (1945)
The creator of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle started in life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
A woman with a magic way of curing children’s bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
The widow of a retired pirate keeps open house for the children of the neighborhood and supplies their mothers with magical cures for the children’s bad habits.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate who lives in a house built upside down. When worried mothers call her about Jane or Darci’s behavior problems, she always has a solution.
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (1954)
The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1949)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle comes to the rescue of parents who don’t know what to do when their children act up.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle sometimes comes up with surprising cures for childrens’ problems.
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Nancy and Plum (1952)
Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.