alys 's review for:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

4.0

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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!)