About
Meet Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle as she rescues parents who need help managing their children’s bad habits. Some ailments she helps treat in this book are impudence, greediness and selfishness, bad hygiene, and staying up late.
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Chapter 1
Comprehension questions
What does Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle say about her husband?
Page 11 — He’s a pirate and after her buried all of his treasure in the backyard he died.
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What does Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle love to imagine while she’s washing dishes?
Page 14 — She’s a princess and was kidnapped by a wicked witch. The only way she’ll get free is to wash every dish and have the kitchen clean before the clock strikes.
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What did Mary Lou do after she spent time with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle?
Page 16 — She went home and cleaned the kitchen without complaining.
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What does Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle teach children about work?
Page 21 — That it is fun
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Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
What is the “Won’t-Pick-Up-Toys” cure?
Page 28 — Don’t clean Hubert’s room for him and wait until he can’t come out. The room will get so crowded that he’ll clean it himself.
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How did Hubert feel about his messy room?
Page 34 — He liked it and didn’t want to come out.
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What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle do to make him want to come out of his room?
Page 35 — She gathered all of the children and paraded by his house on the way to the circus.
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What was in the note Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle gave Hubert?
Page 35 — He had to hurry and clean his room and they would wait for him.
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Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
What does impudent mean?
Page 38 — Talking disrespectfully and rude
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What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle give Mary to help her?
Page 42 — Penelope a parrot
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What is Penelope the parrot like?
Page 43 — Very rude
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How did Mary feel about Penelope?
Page 46 — Thought she was funny at first, but then got frustrated with her impudence.
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Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
What type of boy is Dick Thompson?
Page 51 — He’s greedy and selfish
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What was he supposed to do with the selfishness kit?
Page 57 — Put the labels, locks and tags on all of his clothes and things
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How did the children treat Dick when he had his name on all of his things?
Page 62 — They laughed and made fun of him, ignored him, didn’t play with him
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How did Dick feel when the children treated him this way?
Page 65 — He was sad and didn’t want the labels or locks anymore. He wanted to share.
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Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
What did Patsy hate?
Page 68 — Taking baths
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What is the radish cure?
Page 74 — Her mom is going to plant radish seeds in the dirt on Patsy’s skin and grow radishes.
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How did Patsy feel about radishes growing out of her skin?
Page 76 — Scared, she wanted to bathe
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How would you feel if this happened to you?
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
What do Bobby, Larry, and Susan not like to do?
Page 78 — Go to bed
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How did the children behave when they went to bed late?
Page 82 — Woke up late, quarrelsome, tired, grumpy
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What was the children's consequence when they stayed up late?
Page 87 — They missed fun things, they fell asleep everywhere, they got locked in the theater
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After days of staying up late, how did the children feel about going to bed at 8:00?
Page 90 — They begged their mother to let them
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Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle give Allen’s mom to help Allen with his slow eating?
Page 96 — Different sizes of dishes
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What was happening as Allen ate less and less?
Page 100 — He was tired and weak
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What happened when it was Allen’s turn to exercise the pony?
Page 101 — He was so weak, he just laid on the pony’s back
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How did Allen feel when he ate again?
Page 104 — Better, he had energy, he could exercise the pony
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Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
What do the sisters Anne and Joan do all of the time?
Page 106 — Fight
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What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle tell Mr. and Mrs. Russell to pretend?
Page 112 — They were Joan and Anne and to fight just like them
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How did Anne and Joan feel about their parents fighting?
Page 119 — They didn’t like it, it made them unhappy
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