Everyone's a critic

Including me, in case you live in Siberia and missed this. Which was a lot of fun, as it turns out, and seems to have touched a fairly raw nerve.

So let's talk about books and writers we actually DO like, one book at a time. Today's entry:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, by Betty MacDonald.

I choose this book in honor of my long-suffering mother, who frequently despaired of my ever moving beyond this and the other three books in the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series. I read them over and over and over again as a child, which tormented by mother. Ironic, of course, that I should be the one in the family to become the public arbiter of good taste in books, but there you have it.

Anybody else love these books? The ones with the Hilary Knight illustrations? Very inventive and comforting and fun, without being in the least bit preachy. Discuss.