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Betty MacDonald
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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It was Christmas Eve. Big snowflakes fluttered slowly through the air like white feathers
and made all of Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful.
So begins the story of two orphaned sisters at Mrs. Monday’s Boarding School. But nothing is heavenly for Nancy and Pamela (aka Plum): their parents died in a tragic accident years ago, they’re constantly punished by the cruel Mrs. Monday, and they’re...
and made all of Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful.
So begins the story of two orphaned sisters at Mrs. Monday’s Boarding School. But nothing is heavenly for Nancy and Pamela (aka Plum): their parents died in a tragic accident years ago, they’re constantly punished by the cruel Mrs. Monday, and they’re...
Author
Series
Publisher
Post Hypnotic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The Egg and I took first America by storm in 1945, selling over 1,000,000 within ten months of it's original publication. Betty MacDonald's first book about her adventures as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state was a breath of fresh air to a world that, in the wake of WWII, sorely needed it. Betty lived with her first husband near Chimacum, Washington—a newlywed doing her best to adjust to and
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children and can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen eats v-e-r-y slowly. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a treatment for all of them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The Children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatments are unusual, but they work! Who better than a pig, for instance, to teach a piggy little boy table manners? And what better way to cure the rainy-day “waddle-I-do’s” than hunt for pirate treasure in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children, healthy children. She has a big cupboard overflowing with magic pills and potions and appliances for curing them of bad habits. Like the powder that makes Phillip Carmody completely invisible when he shows off. Or the anti-slowpoke spray she uses to treat Harbin’s extra-acute daydreaming disease. However unusual the problem, you can count on Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for the answer!
“Each of these stories...
“Each of these stories...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen eats v-e-r-y slowly. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a treatment for all of them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with a brand-new bundle of wonderfully magical cures for any bad habit—from watching too much TV, to picky eating, to fear of trying new things. And while Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is working her magic, the children are working some of their own, planning a boisterous birthday bash for everyone's favorite problem solver!
Author
Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 1
Language
English
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle knows how to solve any problem, some with comical results.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Description
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfallthrough...
Author
Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As the children plan her birthday party, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle offers cures for such common conditions as watching too much television and the fear of trying new things.
Author
Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 2
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1949.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's helpful, hilarious magic is irresistible and effective.
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry-ride from Seattle. "Onions in the Stew" describes Betty MacDonald's years on beautiful Vashon Island in Puget Sound in happy times with her second husband and two daughters. During this time, fame as a writer finally knocked on her door. The book covers...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After surviving the failed chicken farm-and marriage-immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. Anybody Can Do Anything recounts Betty's hilarious attempts to find work during the Great Depression, all with the help of her older sister Mary"--Cover page 4.,
14) The plague and I
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You cant even remember where you were going. Thus begins Betty MacDonalds memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the White Plague. MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium making...
Author
Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Everybody calls Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for her cures, some of which have comical consequences.
Author
Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 3
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1954.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle uses her cures with the help of her exceptional animals.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
No time for love (1943): A working class man falls for a sophisticated fashion photographer, but the picture is not pretty when he loses his job and she hires him to be her assistant.
The egg and I (1947): A new bride reluctantly says "I do" to her husband's plan to leave their life in the city and raise chickens on a dilapidated farm located miles from civilization.