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A review by aublar
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
1.0
I listened to this on audio with my 5-year-old daughter and I thought it was terrible. I remember liking the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books as a child but as an adult I thought it was awful- though my daughter really liked it.
It’s not really a novel, more a collection of short stories which were so repetitive and often dull. In each one, a child is misbehaving, the mother calls Mrs. Piggle Wiggle who provides a cure, and within days the child is a perfect angel. Repeat. Repeat. Sometimes the cures were super realistic and seems like they might actually work, and other times they were just plain weird- like growing radishes on the skin of a child who wouldn’t bathe. Like the dirt could actually get that thick on a person.
It’s not really a novel, more a collection of short stories which were so repetitive and often dull. In each one, a child is misbehaving, the mother calls Mrs. Piggle Wiggle who provides a cure, and within days the child is a perfect angel. Repeat. Repeat. Sometimes the cures were super realistic and seems like they might actually work, and other times they were just plain weird- like growing radishes on the skin of a child who wouldn’t bathe. Like the dirt could actually get that thick on a person.