Books in the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series:
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.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
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.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
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.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
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.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle sometimes comes up with surprising cures for childrens’ problems.
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Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight