What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our once-again-mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old reads a lot of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and buries my inbox in animal stories.
A sampling of this week’s books:
At the height of the summer, The Eight-Year-Old discovered Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle in a used book store near Canandaigua Lake, New York. For those of you not familiar with the series, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle specializes in magically silly cures for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and bored children afflicted with a terrible case of the dreaded Waddle-I-Do disease. I loved the books as a child, and it was great fun to hear The Eight-Year-Old chortle her way through them too.
- Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm by Betty MacDonald
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic by Betty MacDonald
In the news:
The Eight-Year-Old’s least favorite part of summer is the part where Mommyo takes time off from Caterpickles. When Caterpickles is offline, The Eight-Year-Old can’t share fun news stories like this:
Real-life Bambi and Thumper frolic around Estes Park YMCA (9News)
or this:
Japan just created a Google street view for cats (Vox)
or this:
Hey Internet! Japan actually has eleven cat islands (Quartz)
or this:
Disneyland finds balance with feral cats (Alley Cat Allies)
or this:
Buzz Aldrin proves the government has a form for everything (Gizmodo)
(Ok, that last one came from Daddyo.)
Fortunately, I’m back, so now she/he/we can.
Related Links:
- What’s The Seven-Year-Old reading this week? (Caterpickles)
- What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week? (Caterpickles)
- More Book Reviews on Caterpickles
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2 Responses to “What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?”
I loved Miss Piggle-Wiggle too.
Gran
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Ah, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Some of my favorite books from childhood. We still have them! My sister reads them, and now that you mentioned them, I should pull them out myself. I always loved the one where the boy didn’t want to wash so radishes sprouted out of his skin…. So good. Hilarious fun.
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