MISSY PIGGLE WIGGLE AND THE WHATEVER CURE

An exciting reboot of the beloved classic Mrs Piggle Wiggle, which has sold over a million copies worldwide.

Ever since Betty MacDonald published Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle in 1947, millions of children have thought of the friendly high-heeled neighbor lady with the magical hump on her back as a grandmotherly figure.

Seven decades, four sequels, a TV adaptation and one musical later, the classic series will get a reboot, with the help of none other than Ann M. Martin, the creator of The Baby-Sitters Club. In September 2016, she and Annie Parnell, MacDonald’s great-granddaughter, will introduce a new generation of children to Missy Piggle-Wiggle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s great-niece.

In the new stories—there are so far plans for two books from Feiwel and Friends—twentysomething Missy comes to watch over the beloved upside-down house and the pets therein after her great-aunt has had to go away unexpectedly. When parents in the neighborhood discover that Missy, too, has magical powers and a knack for children, they start coming to her for help with bad behavior. Unlike her great-aunt, the widow of a pirate (or so she claimed), young Missy will have a romantic plot line with a local bookseller.

While Annie Parnell came up with the concept and advised on the story, kid-lit superstar Ann M. Martin took the lead on the writing—a task she was happy to take on when Macmillan approached her, since the series was a favorite in her own childhood.