Episode 241: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Is your child talking back? Refusing to bathe? Staying up past their bedtime? Call Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, the star of Betty MacDonald’s 1947 novel Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and a series of other books that followed. Alli’s guest on Episode 241 was a major fan of these books when they were growing up, and they’re here to jump into MacDonald’s wacky world all over again. Tune in for discussions about conformity, radishes, fatphobia, negligent dads, childless millennials, and so much more.
Meryl Wilsner is the author of Something to Talk About, Mistakes Were Made, and the forthcoming Cleat Cute. Follow them on Instagram (@merylwilsner) and Twitter (@merylwilsner).
CHECK OUT THE OTHER EPISODES REFERENCED:
Episode 209: Pippi Longstocking (with Claribel Ortega)
Episode 97: Sideways Stories from Wayside School (with Katie Cragwall)
Episode 207: Wayside School Is Falling Down (with Denise Williams)
CHECK OUT MERYL’S BOOKS:
CHECK OUT MERYL’S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni
Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
MORE READING:
“The Immense Pressure on Children to Behave as Tiny Adults” (The Atlantic, 2018)
“We Ranked Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Top 7 Cures for Naughty Children” (B&N Reads, 2015)
“Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle” (Jestress’s Forgotten Books and Stories, 2021)
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