![]() ![]() the quasi-magical feel of the town that they live in, we didn't really change that feel." ![]() Martin says the books didn't need much modernizing. She's left her niece Missy in charge while she's away.Īnn M. P is off somewhere searching for her missing pirate husband. In Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle into the 21st century? Well, to start with, you don't. Lily-white families of stay at home moms, absent working dads, and kids we'd call free-range, if we weren't calling the cops on their parents. Piggle-Wiggle before she died in 1958 her daughter Anne brought out a fifth a few years ago, based on an unpublished story. "I looked in as a judgey child and I did not see myself reflected, but I saw my annoying peers punished to the fullest extent of the law, and my heart thrilled in triumph."īetty MacDonald wrote four books about Mrs. "I think parents give it to their kids hoping that their kids will see the shortcomings described there and stop repeating them," says librarian and book critic Margaret Willison - who, like me, loved the books. Piggle-Wiggle in the 1940s, as a series of bedtime stories for her family. ![]()
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