An old favorite stands up extremely well, but another entry in the Piggle Wiggle series fails utterly. I can remember reading Mrs. Piggle Wiggle with great joy as a very young reader. And when I revisited her in the original volume, all the reasons for that joy came flooding back to me; her upside-down house; her dear departed pirate husband; her quirky costumes; her endless sugar cookies; her enthusiasm for all children's games even when they totally disrupted her home and garden; her wisdom and ingenuity in solving common parenting problems such as "won't pick up toys", "refuses to take a bath" and "never wants to go to bed". The whole book is clever and delightful. In Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic, however, all the cleverness seems to have been used up; we still have parents calling on Mrs. PW to "cure" their children of unwanted habits, but in nearly every case this involves some magic powder blown up their noses or sprinkled in their beds, not the inspired solutions of the first book when radish seeds, graduated sets of dishes and a terribly rude Parrot save the day.
January 2016 ( )

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The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books were some of my all time favorite books when I was little. There was a waiting list at the school library for them and I would put my name on over and over again and then read them over and over again! ( )

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
The Thought-You-Saiders Cure
The Tattletale Cure
The Bad-Table-Manners Cure
The Interrupters
The Heedless Breaker
The Never-Want-to-Go-to-Schooler
The Waddle-I-Doers

This is a very interesting series that has the same character Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. She is full of magic and wonder. She is presented a new problem regularly, but not one that her magic cannot fix. She is fascinating to the children. This is a great book to bring new ideas of how problems can be fixed to students if only they had some magic. ( )