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(0)Betty Bard MacDonald
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
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From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 3
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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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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 2
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Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-I-doers.
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 4
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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 volume 5
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As the children plan a birthday party for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, the loveable problem solver, with her trunk full of magic and her animal friends in tow, offers cures for such common conditions as watching too much television and the fear of trying new things.
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"Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going." Thus begins Betty MacDonald's memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the "White Plague." MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium...
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"The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty." After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The Egg and I , Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything...
11) Nancy and Plum
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
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Two orphaned sisters are sent to live at a boarding home run by the cruel and greedy Mrs. Monday, where they dream about someday having enough to eat and being able to experience a real Christmas.
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 3
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Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2006
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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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Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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A collection of four movies with the Kettles, starting with their first appearance in supporting roles in the Egg and I. In Go to town, when Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City where they get in trouble with gangsters. In the Further adventures, they move into the new house they won that is filled with modern conveniences that confuse Ma and Pa almost as much as they help them. In Back on the farm the Kettles leave their...
15) The egg and I
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Just after she has said 'I do,' Betty learns that her new husband, Bob, has left his white-collar job with plans to raise chickens on a rustic farm located miles away from civilization. Betty tries to make the best of her situation in their ramshackle house but never-ending repairs, a malevolent wood-burning stove, rain, ornery livestock and a seductive neighbor do not make it easy! Bonus materials included.
