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1	Mrs Piggle-Wiggle more books like this by Betty MacDonald Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is an amazing woman who was once married to a pirate and lives in an upside-down house that smells like cookies. But the most amazing thing about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is that she can cure any child of any bad habit. In this first book in a series, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps Patsy overcome her hatred of baths, teaches Hubert the ... see all copies from £5.51! new only from £5.51! \| first editions
2	Egg and I more books like this by Betty MacDonald The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington. see all copies from £5.04! new only from £7.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Mrs.Piggle-Wiggle's farm more books like this by Betty Macdonald Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it". see all copies from £2.03! new only from £4.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic more books like this by Betty MacDonald 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. see all copies from £5.51! new only from £5.51! \| first editions
5	The Plague & I more books like this by Betty MacDonald Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And one would be wrong. Betty MacDonald always had the ability to face up to adversity -- and heaven knows she had ... see all copies from £4.05! new only from £7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Onions in the Stew more books like this by Betty Bard MacDonald The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with this collection of tales about life on the fringe of the Western wilderness. Writing in the 1950s, Betty MacDonald, sophisticated and urbane, captivated readers with her observations about raising a family on an island in Puget Sound. As usual, humorist ... see all copies from £4.79! new only from £7.72! \| first editions
7	Anybody Can Do Anything more books like this by Betty MacDonald One would suppose that during the Depression there wasn't much to laugh about in America. But one would be wrong. This book takes up Betty's story before she'd had any success as a writer - when she went back to live with her mother. With a failed chicken farm and marriage behind her, Betty was desperate to make a living in a country without any ... see all copies from £13.80! new only from £37.72! \| first editions
8	The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury more books like this by Betty MacDonald see all copies from £5.52! new only from £20.70! \| first editions
9	Hello Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle more books like this by Betty MacDonald What do you do with a kid who answers back, won't go to bed, take a bath, or pick up his toys? Why, call Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, of course! Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle who loves children, and doesn't care how messy they make her house, has the best cures for these problems--all hilarious, but effective. see all copies from £5.51! new only from £5.51! \| first editions
10	Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle more books like this by Betty MacDonald, Anne MacDonald Canham, Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator) The first new Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book in 50 years, this volume includes The Just-One-More-TV Show Cure, a never-before-published story by original author Betty MacDonald, and seven more delightful tales written by Betty's daughter, Anne. Illustrations. see all copies from £5.51! new only from £5.51!
11	Nancy and Plum more books like this by Betty MacDonald see all copies from £20.00! new only from £21.22! \| first editions
12 view cover	Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Won't-Take-A-Bath Cure more books like this by Betty MacDonald, Bruce Whatley (Illustrator) A picture-book adaptation of a story told in the "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" series of books. Here the magical and wise Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures Patsy Brown, a dirty girl who refuses to take a bath. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from £5.52! first editions
13 view cover	The Won't-Pick-Up-Toys Cure more books like this by Betty MacDonald A picture-book adaptation of a story told in the "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" series of books. Here the magical and wise Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures Hubert Prentiss, a boy who refuses to pick up his toys. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from £11.41!
14	A Friendship more books like this by John D MacDonald, Betty Mackey, Dan Rowan see all copies from £6.60! signed copies \| first editions
15	Helping your child succeed in school with activities for children aged 5 through 11 more books like this by Dorothy Rich, Margery Martin, Betty MacDonald, Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.) see all copies from £5.52! new only from £14.49!
16 view cover	The Final Voyage of the Princess Sophia: Did They All Have to Die? more books like this by Betty O'Keefe, Ian MacDonald October 25th, 1918 is the day that goes down in history as the Inside Passage's worst maritime disaster. More than 350 people lost their lives and the CPR's British Columbia Coast Service was forever tarnished when the Princess Sophia went down off Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal between Skagway and Juneau, Alaska. The authors, O'Keefe and Macdonald ... see all copies from £6.72! new only from £12.16! \| first editions
17 view cover	Born to Die: A Cop Killer's Final Message more books like this by Ian MacDonald, Betty O'Keefe Macdonald and O'Keefe's latest book delves into the life and times of Joe Gordon, the cop killer who lived and died in 1950s Vancouver, British Columbia. Before Gordon was hanged at British Columbia's Oakalla Prison Farm in 1957, he wrote about his downfall. His final words were published in the Vancouver Sun after his execution. They included a ... see all copies from £7.50! new only from £16.09! \| first editions
18 view cover	Disaster on Mount Slesse: The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash more books like this by Betty O'Keefe, Ian MacDonald This is a gripping account of Western Canada's worst aviation disaster. Mount Slesse, a jagged 2,500-metre peak near Chilliwack BC known locally as 'The Fang' lived up to its evil reputation on December 9, 1956, when Trans Canada Airlines Flight 810 slammed into it, killing all 62 aboard. For five months nobody knew what happened. Flight 810 had ... see all copies from £10.20! new only from £10.20!
19	Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Won't-Pick-Up-Toys Cure (a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Adventure) by Betty Macdonald see all copies from £5.52! new only from £21.38!
20 view cover	Merchant Prince: The Story of Alexander Duncan McRae more books like this by Betty O'Keefe, Ian MacDonald Everyone who lives in the western provinces of Canada has been affected by Alexander Duncan McRae. That's why Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald believe the man deserves more than fleeting references in Canadian history books. McRae was Vancouver's 'merchant prince', a businessman, a self-made aristocrat who lorded over Hycroft, the finest home on ... see all copies from £9.55! new only from £17.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take more books like this by Ian MacDonald, Betty O'Keefe The top cop in Vancouver, police chief Walter Mulligan, is on the take. From mid 1955 through to the spring of 1956, the Tupper Inquiry, which was investigating the activities of Mulligan and the Vancouver Police Department was front-page news. "The Mulligan Affair" had everything to make headlines. It had death, graft, bootleggers, bookies, ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £12.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Canadian Holy War: A Story of Clans, Tongs, Murder, and Bigotry more books like this by Ian MacDonald, Betty O'Keefe "On Earth, one gentle soul the less; in Heaven, one angel more." So reads the epitaph of Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith, the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the only other adult in the ... see all copies from £2.21! first editions
23 view cover	Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu more books like this by Ian MacDonald, Betty O'Keefe Authors O'Keefe and Macdonald have studied Underhill's grand defence and yeoman service to meet a medical challenge unique in our history. Their timely story comes exactly one century after Underhill was appointed Vancouver's first medical health officer, and in the lingering shadow of SARS, an ominous indicator of how vulnerable we remain to new ... see all copies from £10.01! new only from £11.52!
24 view cover	The Diary of an Old Soul & the White Page Poems by Betty K Aberlin, George MacDonald, Robert Trexler (Introduction by) In 1880, George MacDonald, the Scottish poet, novelist and preacher, in the wake of the deaths of two of his children, published A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul . This book, which unites grief and hope in hard-won faith, contains a poem for every day of the year. In the first edition of this classic collection there was a ... see all copies from £9.45! new only from £10.45!
25	The Klondike's "dear little Nugget" more books like this by Ian Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe see all copies from £9.73! new only from £26.62! \| first editions

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