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.

Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and wadde-I-doers.

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. Mondays Boarding School. But nothing is heavenly for Nancy and Pamela (aka Plum): their parents died in a tragic accident years ago, theyre constantly punished by the cruel Mrs. Monday, and theyre all alone for the holidays.Luckily, Nancy...

Relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington.

Ma and Pa Kettle back on the farm: Ma & Pa are gratefully returning home after winning a trip to New York, but it appears uranium has been discovered during the digging of a new well. Ma and Pa Kettle go to town: Ma and Pa win a trip to New York, while they have a hilarous time in the big city a mobster, seeking to avoid the police, is minding the kids. Ma and Pa Kettle: In this hilarious adventure, Ma and Pa's house, a building so rickety it's...