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.
Betty MacDonald was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in various places in the West. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories were first told to her daughters, Anne and Joan. MacDonald is also the author of
The Egg and I, Anybody Can Do Anything, Nancy and Plum, and
Onions in the Stew. Mrs. MacDonald died in 1958.
Karen White is the
New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series,
The Night the Lights Went Out,
Flight Patterns,
The Sound of Glass,
A Long Time Gone, and
The Time Between. She is the coauthor of
The Forgotton Room with
New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.
