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A review by pifferdiff
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
5.0
I remember loving the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books when I was in elementary school. I had hoped they would still be entertaining for Violet to listen to me read to her now, 30 years after I read them (and 70 years after they were written), and they were (Violet was delighted with the cures and kept asking for more).
But what I did not expect was to be chuckling myself at the sly humor that Betty MacDonald snuck in that is still so funny as a mom today (the conversations with the other mothers and the increasingly absurd names - brilliant!). Sure, there are some gender role stereotypes of the era, and some references to “Indians” and weight that I omitted/rephrased, but this book is still a gem.
But what I did not expect was to be chuckling myself at the sly humor that Betty MacDonald snuck in that is still so funny as a mom today (the conversations with the other mothers and the increasingly absurd names - brilliant!). Sure, there are some gender role stereotypes of the era, and some references to “Indians” and weight that I omitted/rephrased, but this book is still a gem.