Monday’s Boarding School in Heavenly Valley, persuaded by Mrs. Their surviving relative is Uncle John, a wealthy bachelor with little patience or time for children. It is a delightful old fashioned Christmas story about two sisters, Nancy, 10 and Plum, 8, whose parents died in an accident. It is a story Betty told her daughters, Joan and Anne, each night at bedtime, making it up as she went along. ‘ Nancy and Plum‘ was first published in 1952. Piggle Wiggle’ children’s books, and also the adult books, ‘The Egg & I’, ‘Anybody Can Do Anything’ and ‘Onion in the Stew’. ‘ Nancy and Plum‘ is a children’s book written by the world famous author Betty McDonald, who wrote four popular ‘Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’s house and enjoy the comical, common sense cures that have won her so many friends. And her solutions always work, with plenty of laughs along the way. When a distraught parent calls her because Mary has turned into an Answer Backer or Dick has become Selfish or Allen has decided to be a Slow Eater Tiny Bite Taker, Mrs. Best of all, she knows everything there is to know about children. Her husband was a pirate, and she likes to have her friends dig in the back yard for the pirate treasure he buried there. She lives in an upside down house, with a kitchen that is always full of freshly baked cookies. She is a little lady with brown sparkly eyes. Piggle Wiggle! She’s the kind of grown up you would like to have for a friend and all her friends are children. Now in paperback…įor a new generation of children to enjoy.’ ‘San Francisco Examiner Chronicle. Piggle Wiggle loves children good or bad and never scolds but has positive cures for Answer Backers, Never Want to Go to Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits.
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