In one instance, she blows special powder on a kid which makes them mute for a time so that they stop interrupting their parents when they talk. The magical cures she provides range from the fantastic to the mundane.
In her upside down house, she has a box full of magical cures that her deceased husband who was once a pirate of renown had left to her.Īt the start of the series, she provides these cures to parents who want to cure their children of some terrible habits. Piggle Wiggle” series of novels by Betty MacDonald follows the life and times of a woman who lives in a lively suburban area where most of the children have bad habits. A fun thing about it was that it made people believe that the US capital was full of country bumpkins such as Ma and Pa Kettle. While the novel “Egg and I” was a critically acclaimed work that enjoyed massive popularity, it was criticised in some quarters for the stereotypical characterization of Native Americans. Fred MacMurray played her husband since studio executives felt it was not proper to publicize her divorce. They were so popular that a few years after she started writing, production companies came calling asking to turn the series into films.Ĭlaudette Colbert played MacDonald in the 1947 adaptation.
It was in the debut that she got to introduce her most popular characters in Ma and Pa Kettle. She based much of it on her experiences living in Chimacumn Valley, where she ran a chicken farm. The novel would subsequently become a bestseller and be translated into more than 20 languages. MacDonald made her name with the “Egg and I” which was the very first novel she wrote. They would eventually move to California’s Carmel Valley in 1956. The two made their home in Vashon Island which is the place from which she wrote most of her works. She would take her writing name from her second husband Donald C MacDonald whom she married in 1942. A major event during this time was when she got Tuberculosis and spent eleven months recuperating at a hospital.
MacDonald divorced her husband in 1931 and moved to Seattle, where she took different jobs to support her children and herself given that she had ceased contact with Heskett following their divorce. Her new family would then live near Port Townsend, where her husband had found a house at a chicken farm. The author was born in Boulder Colorado but spent much of her childhood and young adulthood in Capitol Hill in Seattle before ultimately moving to Roosevelt with her family in 1922.Īs a teenager, Macdonald went to Roosevelt high school and only three years later, she would get married to Rober tEugne Heskett. Piggle Wiggle” series is a set of children’s fiction novels by bestselling children’s fiction author Betty MacDonald.
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