Betty Bard MacDonald

From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.

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.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it."

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 all alone for the holidays. Luckily,...

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle suggests the radish cure for Patsy's bad habit of not taking a bath.

"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 can't 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...

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle suggests a cure for Hubert's bad habit of not picking up his toys.

Three-cornered moon : Considered by some to be the first screwball comedy, this film portrays a Brooklyn family as various members look for employment after Mom loses a fortune on the stock market. Maid of Salem: An independent young woman is accused of casting evil spells by the Puritan townsfolk. I met him in Paris: A successful designer must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright, a dashing playboy and a hometown boy. Bluebeard's...