About
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is at it again teaching children good manners through her clever cures and potions. Some of the ailments she helps parents through are tattletaling, bad eating habits, carelessness, interrupting, and being ignorant.
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
How did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle react when the children who were playing at her house broke or ruined anything?
Page 2 — She would help them fix it, she made them feel like they were more important than her things
2
What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle do with the gifts the children gave her?
Page 4 — She used them and kept them where everyone could see them
4
What does Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle like to listen to?
Page 5 — The children’s dreams
5
Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
What kind of phase were the Burbank children going through?
Page 12 — Thought-you-said phase
12
What did Mr. and Mrs. Burbank try to do with their own speech?
Page 14 — Speak clearly
14
How did the powder help the children in the “thought-you-said” phase?
Page 17 — Made their hearing very keen
17
How did the children feel when the powder was sprinkled on their ears?
Page 22 — Miserable, they didn’t change what people said any more
22
Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
Why do the kids at school dislike Wendy?
Page 26 — She’s a tattletale
26
What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle give Wendy and Timmy to stop their tattletaling?
Page 31 — 4 black pills
31
What happened as soon as the children started to tattletale?
Page 33 — Black smoke came out of their mouths and went up to the ceiling
33
How did the smoke help the children stop tattletaling?
Page 38 — They didn’t like seeing all of the yucky smoke that they made floating on the ceiling
38
Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
What did Christopher eat like?
Page 39 — A starving wild animal
39
Who is Lester?
Page 42 — Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s pig
42
What is Lester like?
Page 43 — He eats at the table, has good manners, sleeps in the basement, quiet
43
Why didn’t Lester want to eat the spareribs?
Page 51 — They're made out of pork
51
Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
What does it mean to interrupt someone?
Page 60 — To talk when someone else is already talking
60
What did Mrs. Franklin do if the children started to interrupt?
Page 64 — Blow magic powder on them
64
What did the magic powder do when the children interrupted?
Page 68 — Their mouths would snap open or closed
68
Who else needed the interrupting powder?
Page 69 — Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
69
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
What does heedless mean?
Page 70 — To be careless
70
Why does Sharon need the Heedless Breaker Cure?
Page 72 — She breaks everything around her and hurts people
72
How does the magic powder from Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle work?
Page 77 — It makes you move very slowly and carefully
77
How did Sharon feel when she had the magic powder sprinkled on her?
Page 84 — Slow, floaty, everything is easy
84
Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
What did Jody say was wrong so he didn’t have to go to school?
Page 87 — He was sick
87
What would Jody do while the other children went to school?
Page 89 — Worked on his tree house
89
What does ignorance mean?
Not having information or knowledge
What did the “IGNORANCE TONIC” do to Jody?
Page 98 — He didn’t know anything. He couldn’t talk or think right anymore.
98
Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
Why were the children disappointed when it started raining?
Page 108 — They were supposed to go on a hike with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
108
What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle want the children to help her find?
Page 116 — Secret drawers and cupboards with money in them
116
What was Mimi supposed to do to see if the gold coin was lucky?
Page 122 — Rub it hard between her thumb and first finger
122
Was the pirate’s lucky piece lucky?
Page 124 — Yes
124
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