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Betty MacDonald
(1908 - 1958)
Betty MacDonald was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children’s books.
Bibliography
Best in Children’s Books Volume 36 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Author(s):
William Allingham
Brothers Grimm
Betty MacDonald
Tony Palazzo
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Burmah Burris
Robin Jacques
Richard Scarry
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 4 (1953)
A collection of humorous and nonsense stories and verse. Includes a selection from Mr. Popper's Penguins, with illustrations by Robert Lawson.
Read online at archive.org.
The Egg and I (1945)
The creator of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle started in life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
A woman with a magic way of curing children’s bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
The widow of a retired pirate keeps open house for the children of the neighborhood and supplies their mothers with magical cures for the children’s bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate who lives in a house built upside down. When worried mothers call her about Jane or Darci’s behavior problems, she always has a solution.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (1954)
The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1949)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle comes to the rescue of parents who don’t know what to do when their children act up.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle sometimes comes up with surprising cures for childrens’ problems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Nancy and Plum (1952)
Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hildegarde Hopkins