“Nancy and Plum” is a children’s book that Betty MacDonald first published in 1952. One hilarious situation after another with Betty trying to earn a living in a country without any jobs. During the depression she went back to live with her mother leaving a failed chicken farm and a dead marriage behind her. “Anybody Can Do Anything” takes up Betty MacDonald’s story before her bout with tuberculosis in “The Plague and I”. In this delightful children’s book Mrs.Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeve, but she still has her upside-down house, her delicious cookies and her ability to understand how children feel. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (Illustrated by Hilary Knight) An upbeat account of her battle at age 30.ġ949 Mrs.
“The Plague and I” is the sequel to “The Egg and I” and tells how Betty MacDonald learned that she had tuberculosis and must enter a sanatorium for treatment. Piggle-Wiggle and her hilarious adventures and advice. Piggle-Wiggle” is an introduction to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Illustrated by Hilary Knight) "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.“The Egg and I” is Betty MacDonald’s first autobiographical best seller.This hilarious and heartwarming classic is about working a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington in the late 1920’s.ġ947 Mrs. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry-ride from Seattle. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how “the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family” brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly.
The Plague and I recounts MacDonald’s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. Although MacDonald’s �rst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and - click - knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and �ery company I was really going to enjoy. You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the �rst few moments of meeting? “Something clicked,” we say.
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