Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
As a kid I thought this book was hilarious (it was a lot better than some of the odds and ends I got to read as an expat kid) but I don't look back on it all that fondly. Books where bratty kids get what's coming to them just leave a bad taste in my mouth. Same with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. I have a low threshold for mean.
Adam and I enjoyed this book together. He liked hearing about kids who had the same faults he did but, of course, theirs were greatly exaggerated! The pattern was a bit predictable though so by the last chapter his interest had waned. We knew Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle would fix it. The end.
The book was a bit repetitive. It made me laugh and smile. All in all a really enjoyable read for me and that's exactly what I wanted from it.
I reread this and my goodness did it bring back nostalgia! I read these all the time growing up and I still think they are adorable, cute stories. Love them every time, even as I’ve gotten older 😁
funny
lighthearted
It's funny, because if I were to read the description of these books - a woman convinces kids to be well behaved using slightly funny techniques that essentially make them WANT to be well behaved - well, I'd roll my eyes and wonder why anyone thought kids would want to read that. And yet I remember reading them over and over as a kid myself, and now my son loves it. There's a charm to the voice of the narrator and the relatively simple problems. The stories do sound a bit repetitive, as if they were short stories written separately and then collected together, reintoducing Mrs. Piggle Wiggle several times, and repeated the "mother calls up other moms" bit too often. (Though I think that's quite funny as an adult and a mother, since the interactions, while parodied, are so true!)
We're listening to this as a family and it's been fun!