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This has a not dated well. The first few pages had some extraordinarily racist observations about First Nations Americans. Ugh.

Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: Blue like tweed CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) The book is about the humorous life on a wilderness chicken ranch. The book was made into a movie.The Egg and I is a humorous memoir by American author Betty MacDonald about her adventures and travels as a young wife on a chicken farm in the US state of Washington. The book is based on the author's experiences as a newlywed trying to acclimate to and operate a small chicken farm with her husband, Robert Heskett, from 1927 to 1931.

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".

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Read to see what it was like. Not exactly to my liking. Chapters did not flow. KIRKUS REVIEWThis might be a companion piece to Roughly Speaking. It has the same exuberance, tinctured with distaste rather than nest; it is also about as exhausting as entertaining. It is breezy, slangy, colloquial -- and original. It hasn't the suavity of Grandma Called It Carnal but it's as down to earth a picture of rural life as experienced on a primitive chicken ranch in the far northwest. The young wife is utterly unprepared, despite the unconventional mining town upbringing she had had, and by nature ineffectual. The husband loves it all. And the result is a panorama in black and white of the life, the neighbors, the hardships, with a saving grace of humor.Pub Date: Oct. 3rd, 1945ISBN: 0060914289Page count: 292ppPublisher: LippincottReview Posted Online: May 2nd, 2012Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1st, 1945

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I just reread this with my 6yo. Some of it doesn't hold up well against my childhood memories. I was particularly disturbed by the cure for bullying -- something called a "Leadership Pill" that magically made Nicky Semicolon nice to little kids because he was busy leading them in a project. It didn't feel like he learned a lesson at all. That's not helpful or even very fun to read about. Also, Nicky's bullying behavior was borderline sadistic. It doesn't follow that the cure would be to put him in charge of the little kids he's been beating up.

On the other hand, the crybaby cure was very funny (a potion makes her cry so much that she literally has to swim in her tears).

This 1950s book doesn't align with my modern parenting sensibilities at all, but it's still an amusing way to start a conversation about misbehavior and correction. Not every book has to teach a lesson. Some are just for fun and provide a great example of how you can't believe everything you read.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatments are unusual, but they work! Who better than a pig, for instance, to teach a piggy little boy table manners? And what better way to cure the rainy-day "waddle-I-do's" than hunt for a pirate treasure in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's upside-down house?

One of my favorites.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen eats v-e-r-y slowly. Mrs Piggle-Wiggle has a treatment for all of them.

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".

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatments are unusual, but they work! Who better than a pig, for instance, to teach a piggy little boy table manners? And what better way to cure the rainy-day "waddle-I-do's" than hunt for a pirate treasure in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's upside-down house?

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Loved Mrs. Piggle Wiggle when I was a kid! She is ever so much better than Mary Poppins and you can't pay me enough to read nanny mcphee.

This is another book I read years and years ago, and now cannot recall what it was like.

The Egg and I must have been written in the early 1940s if it was first published in 1945. So the thing to remember is that it's a window into that time period. I enjoyed reading it and spending time with Betty in the Pacific Northwest. I don't usually like sarcastic writing but she has a quirky twist to her sense of humor that I liked. For me it brought back much of the culture of growing up in the 50s so some things I found especially funny. At the time my siblings and I loved the Mrs Piggle Wiggle books. I found one when I was raising my kids in the 80s and decided not to read it with them. It's a different time.

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An old favorite stands up extremely well, but another entry in the Piggle Wiggle series fails utterly. I can remember reading Mrs. Piggle Wiggle with great joy as a very young reader. And when I revisited her in the original volume, all the reasons for that joy came flooding back to me; her upside-down house; her dear departed pirate husband; her quirky costumes; her endless sugar cookies; her enthusiasm for all children's games even when they totally disrupted her home and garden; her wisdom and ingenuity in solving common parenting problems such as "won't pick up toys", "refuses to take a bath" and "never wants to go to bed". The whole book is clever and delightful. In Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic, however, all the cleverness seems to have been used up; we still have parents calling on Mrs. PW to "cure" their children of unwanted habits, but in nearly every case this involves some magic powder blown up their noses or sprinkled in their beds, not the inspired solutions of the first book when radish seeds, graduated sets of dishes and a terribly rude Parrot save the day.
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" In Vain I have Struggled" (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice) seem to be what all the parents of the stories are like they try to do there best but in the end call Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. The book is a great and exciting. You have to keep reading after one chapter.

-Viola SMILES

Life in the wilds of washington state, not the first frontier, but the next generation. I found it very interesting and am grateful to live as I do now.

Technically this is three books in one but I love her. I used to read these stories to my mother-in-law's first grade class and just had the chance to re-read them and still love them.

A great read. I always did love books about institutional living - boarding schools, orphanages, mental hospitals, etc. If anyone has researched what happened to Betty's friend Kimi, let me know what you found out.

Never mind, she's in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Sone

Parents in one city turn to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for ludicrous child rearing tips and Saw style punishments to correct various behaviors. More a series of macabre short stories than a novel, really.

Interesting memoir set in a time when there weren't antibiotics available to treat tuberculosis. Betty MacDonald has a fun turn of phrase, making even the most dreary of patients at the sanitorium into someone I enjoyed hearing about. The differences in treatment were also interesting, in a way where I am very glad that I don't have to get my ribs removed in order to collapse my lung in order to treat a pulmonary disease. Heather Henderson is also a delight as the narrator, full of personality just like Betty MacDonald.