Betty MacDonald Books In Order

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Books In Publication Order

  1. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
  2. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1949)
  3. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (1954)
  4. Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1955)
  5. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Won’t-Pick-Up-Toys Cure (1998)
  6. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (2007)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Nancy and Plum (1952)

Memoirs Books In Publication Order

  1. Anybody Can Do Anything (1945)
  2. The Egg and I (1945)
  3. The Plague and I (1948)
  4. Onions in the Stew (1955)
  5. Who, Me? (1959)

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Betty MacDonald Books Overview

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

The incomparable Mrs. Piggle Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer Backers, Never Want to Go to Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits. Now in paperback…
for a new generation of children to enjoy.’ ‘San Francisco Examiner Chronicle. Meet Mrs. Piggle Wiggle! She’s the kind of grown up you would like to have for a friend and all her friends are children. She is a little lady with brown sparkly eyes. She lives in an upside down house, with a kitchen that is always full of freshly baked cookies. Her husband was a pirate, and she likes to have her friends dig in the back yard for the pirate treasure he buried there. Best of all, she knows everything there is to know about children. When a distraught parent calls her because Mary has turned into an Answer Backer or Dick has become Selfish or Allen has decided to be a Slow Eater Tiny Bite Taker, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle has the answer. And her solutions always work, with plenty of laughs along the way. So join the crowd at Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’s house and enjoy the comical, common sense cures that have won her so many friends.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic

It’s impossible to upset Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. Whatever happens, she takes it in stride, and usually laughs about it, too. If you give her a gift, she will treasure it. If you break something, she’ll show you how to fix it. If you tell her what you dreamed last night, she’ll listen and even help you tell the parts you forget. She knows what to do about things that drive most grown ups crazy. When Mrs. Burbank is in despair because her children have become Thought You Saiders, or Mrs. Hamilton losed her patience with two Talltetales, or Mrs. Rogers’ sanity and crockery are threatened as sharon turns into a Heedless Breaker, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle calmly produces a pill or a potion or a powder that takes care of the problem. And all of her medicines taste delicious! Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’s helpful, hilarious magic is irresistible and as funny as it is effective.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm

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!’

Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

The incomparable Mrs. Piggle Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer Backers, Never Want to Go to Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits. Now in paperback…
for a new generation of children to enjoy. San Francisco Examiner Chronicle.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Won’t-Pick-Up-Toys Cure

All the children love Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and she loves them, and even better, she knows exactly what to do to get rid of their bad manners. So when Hubert Prentiss won’t pick up his toys, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle knows that the only cure for him is to just let those toys pile up until Hubert can’t get out of his room!

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle is back with a brand new bundle of wonderfully magical cures for any bad habit from watching too much TV to picky eating to fear of trying new things. With a little help from her pets, Wag the dog, Lightfoot the cat, and Lester the pig and a trunk full of magnificent powders and potions she can solve any problem, big or small. And while Mrs. Piggle Wiggle is working her magic, the children are working some of their own, planning a boisterous birthday bash for everyone’s favorite problem solver!

Just in time for the sixtieth anniversary of the original Mrs. Piggle Wiggle comes a healthy dose of comedy and adventure to delight a whole new generation of readers.

Nancy and Plum

Nancy and Plum‘ is a children’s book written by the world famous author Betty McDonald, who wrote four popular ‘Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’ children’s books, and also the adult books, ‘The Egg & I’, ‘Anybody Can Do Anything’ and ‘Onion in the Stew’. ‘Nancy and Plum‘ was first published in 1952. It is a story Betty told her daughters, Joan and Anne, each night at bedtime, making it up as she went along. It is a delightful old fashioned Christmas story about two sisters, Nancy, 10 and Plum, 8, whose parents died in an accident. Their surviving relative is Uncle John, a wealthy bachelor with little patience or time for children. He puts the girls in Mrs. Monday’s Boarding School in Heavenly Valley, persuaded by Mrs. Monday’s promises and unctuous manner. But Mrs. Monday is an ogre who pampers her niece, Maribelle, and persecutes the other girls in her custody. Of the two sisters, Plum is the spunky one, leading Nancy on forays for food and initiating their running away. Plum like that more famous orphan, ,Annie, is brave, innovative and energetic. There are lovely characters who are sympathetic and help the girls: Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, who find the girls on their farm and rescue them; Miss Waverly, the school teacher; Miss Appleby, the librarianl and Old Tom, the caretaker at the orphanage. For contrast their is Miss Gronk the Sunday school teacher, who shares the role of villianess with Mrs. Monday. ‘Nancy and Plum‘ and ‘Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’ were made into plays by the Seattle Children’s Theater which were done exactly the way Betty would have wanted. They appealed to adults as well as children and are now being performed by other children’s theaters throughout the United States.

Anybody Can Do Anything

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the rst few moments of meeting? Something clicked, we say. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and click knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and ery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald s rst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year 1938 39 battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high spirited, hilarious celebration of how the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough and tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry ride from Seattle.

The Egg and I

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall through chaos and catastrophe this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald’s The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.

The Plague and I

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the rst few moments of meeting? Something clicked, we say. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and click knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and ery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald s rst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year 1938 39 battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high spirited, hilarious celebration of how the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough and tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry ride from Seattle.

Onions in the Stew

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the rst few moments of meeting? Something clicked, we say. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and click knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and ery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald s rst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year 1938 39 battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high spirited, hilarious celebration of how the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough and tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry ride from Seattle.

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