Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword

Betty MacDonald was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in various places in the West. Her childhood activities included singing, ballet, piano, French, dramatics, cooking, shooting, and roof painting. She attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle, and the University of Washington. Ms. MacDonald worked at an assortment of jobs: as secretary to a mining engineer, tinting photographs, keeping records for a rabbit grower, running a chain-letter office, modeling fur coats, and selling advertising. She also did government work, which included teaching art and writing. She was married twice, first to a chicken farmer named Robert Haskett (her successful book The Egg And I was based on reminiscences of their experiences on the farm) and then to Donald MacDonald. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories were first told to her daughters, Anne and Joan. Ms. MacDonald died in 1958, but her classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books-Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle; Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle; Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic; and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm-have been read and loved by generations of young readers. After all, we're never too young or too old for magic.Mazer, Anne is the author of 'Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword' with ISBN 9780439178822 and ISBN 0439178827.