The Piggles™ are Squiggle, his twin sister Wriggle and their baby brother Giggle, who live in the village of Pigglemere, in the English Lake District. They were created by Alan Dart and Malcolm Bird and first appeared as toys designed by Alan in Woman’s Weekly magazine. The Piggles are now trademarked and represented by the COPYRIGHTS GROUP, a CHORION company, from whom they can be licensed. A Piggles Style Guide is available to licensees. There are currently plans for an animated television series, for which Peter Polycarpou has written a theme tune, The Piggle Prance. A series of books and a wide range of related merchandise is also in development.

A Piggles Greeting Card Store, where a range of cards with personalised inside text can be ordered, is at www.GCUniverse.com/thepiggles


There's a short animation of all three Piggles here, one of Squiggle here, one of Giggle here, and one of Wriggle here, all on YouTube.

ALAN DART has designed knitwear and crafts for many magazines, and demonstrated crafts for children on television series for TV am and Channel Four. He was the toy consultant for Woman’s Weekly magazine for 18 years and now designs a knitted toy each month for Simply Knitting magazine. He also sells his knitted toy patterns as PDF downloads from his website at www.alandart.co.uk

MALCOLM BIRD’s illustrations have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and on greetings cards. In addition, he’'s written and illustrated several comic strips, and his book titles include The Witch'’s Handbook and The School in Murky Wood. He illustrated Lynda Lee-Potter's column in the Daily Mail for 25 years.

Alan and Malcolm have also worked together on the series of books The Christmas Handbook, The Magic Handbook and The Party Handbook.

To find out more, please contact them by email at both@birdanddart.plus.com.

Piggle Cottage Click here to enlarge

Pigglemere and Pigglewick-on-Sea, known locally as Piggle Country, bring together all the most ideal aspects of the English Lake District

The Piggles - as toys made by Alan Dart and featured in Woman's Weekly.