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Looking for Betty MacDonald

2016-09-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-09-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Looking for Betty MacDonald by : Paula Becker

Download or read book Looking for Betty MacDonald written by Paula Becker. This book was released on 2016-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald’s archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk

The Plague and I

2016-11-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-11-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Plague and I by : Betty MacDonald

Download or read book The Plague and I written by Betty MacDonald. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can’t even remember where you were going.” Thus begins Betty MacDonald’s memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the “White Plague.” MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium—making all of us laugh in the process.

Anybody Can Do Anything

2000-07 Authors, American
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Release : 2000-07
Genre : Authors, American
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Book Rating : 284/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Anybody Can Do Anything by : Betty Bard MacDonald

Download or read book Anybody Can Do Anything written by Betty Bard MacDonald. This book was released on 2000-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One would suppose that during the Depression there wasn't much to laugh about in America. But one would be wrong. This book takes up Betty's story before she'd had any success as a writer - when she went back to live with her mother. With a failed chicken farm and marriage behind her, Betty was desperate to make a living in a country without any jobs. Luckily she had her sister Mary batting for her, and catapulting Betty into one hilarious situation after another, while she watched safely from the sidelines.

The Egg and I

1987-08-05 Nature
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Release : 1987-08-05
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 289/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Egg and I by : Betty MacDonald

Download or read book The Egg and I written by Betty MacDonald. This book was released on 1987-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall—through chaos and catastrophe—this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm

1985-08-09 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 1985-08-09
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 500/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm written by . This book was released on 1985-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it".

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