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226 pp.
| Knopf
| October, 2010
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TradeISBN 978-0-375-86685-2$15.99
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LibraryISBN 978-0-375-96685-9$18.99 New ed. (1952, Lippincott)
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Mary GrandPré.
Orphans Nancy and Plum lead deprived lives at cruel Mrs. Monday's boarding school. The sisters manage to escape her clutches, find wonderful new guardians, and even improve the lot of other orphans. Modern readers may not recognize the era's mores, but they'll love domestic Nancy and tomboy Plum. GrandPré's new pencil and wash illustrations strike just the right note: old-fashioned yet cheeky.
159 pp.
| HarperCollins
| August, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-397-31715-8$16.99
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PaperISBN 978-0-06-440149-4$5.99 New ed. (1957, Lippincott)
(3)
1-3
Illustrated by
Alexandra Boiger.
With her trademark ingenuity and humor, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle teaches children lessons and dispenses cures for such conditions as slow-eater-tiny-bite-taking, showing off, and interrupting. The books are newly illustrated, and Boiger's clean-lined, old-fashioned-looking black-and-white drawings occasionally work in some subtle modern-day touches (e.g., a child wearing a backwards baseball cap). Review covers these titles: Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic.
130 pp.
| HarperCollins
| August, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-397-31712-7$16.99
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PaperISBN 978-0-06-440148-7$5.99 New ed. (1947, Lippincott)
(3)
1-3
Illustrated by
Alexandra Boiger.
With her trademark ingenuity and humor, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle teaches children lessons and dispenses cures for such conditions as slow-eater-tiny-bite-taking, showing off, and interrupting. The books are newly illustrated, and Boiger's clean-lined, old-fashioned-looking black-and-white drawings occasionally work in some subtle modern-day touches (e.g., a child wearing a backwards baseball cap). Review covers these titles: Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic.
181 pp.
| HarperCollins
| August, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-397-31714-1$16.99
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PaperISBN 978-0-06-440151-7$5.99 New ed. (1949, Lippincott)
(3)
1-3
Illustrated by
Alexandra Boiger.
With her trademark ingenuity and humor, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle teaches children lessons and dispenses cures for such conditions as slow-eater-tiny-bite-taking, showing off, and interrupting. The books are newly illustrated, and Boiger's clean-lined, old-fashioned-looking black-and-white drawings occasionally work in some subtle modern-day touches (e.g., a child wearing a backwards baseball cap). Review covers these titles: Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic.
(4)
1-3
Illustrated by
Alexandra Boiger.
This new adventure about magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle began as an unpublished story found after MacDonald's death. Canham (MacDonald's daughter) added chapters to round out Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's bad-behavior "cures" (e.g., the Afraid-to-Try Cure). The stories are similar to the originals but do include a sometimes awkward mix of contemporary and 1950s styles (also occasionally apparent in Boiger's surehanded black-and-white illustrations).