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Title	:	Uncle
Author	:	J.P. Martin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	July 10th 2007 by NYR Children's Collection (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Fiction. Childrens. Fantasy. Animals. Humor

Uncle Hardcover | Pages: 176 pages

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If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent purple dressing-gown, Uncle oversees a vast ramshackle castle full of friendly kooks while struggling to fend off the sneak attacks of the incorrigible (and ridiculous) Badfort Crowd. Each Uncle story introduces a new character from Uncle’s madcap world: Signor Guzman, careless keeper of the oil lakes; Noddy Ninety, an elderly train conductor and the oldest student of Dr. Lyre’s Select School for Young Gentlemen; the proprietors of Cheapman’s Store (where motorbikes are a halfpenny each) and Dearman’s Store (where the price of an old milk jug goes up daily); along with many others. But for every delightful friend of Uncle, there is a foe who is no less deliriously wicked. Luckily the misbegotten schemes of the Badfort Crowd are no match for Uncle’s superior wits.

Quentin Blake’s quirky illustrations are the perfect complement to J.P. Martin’s stories, each one of a perfect length for bedtime reading. Lovers of Roald Dahl and William Steig will rejoice in Uncle’s wonderfully bizarre and happy world, where the good guys always come out on top, and once a year, everybody, good and bad, sits down together for an enormous Christmas feast.

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Original Title:	Uncle
ISBN:	1590172396 (ISBN13: 9781590172391)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.95 From 338 Users | 32 Reviews

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Have you ever seen an eight-year-old create a story? They come up with an idea, then expound upon it, adding details in an emerging narrative stream of consciousness. Logic and reality take a backseat to the flow of the story and all those silly details.J.P. Martin managed to channel his inner eight-year-old for this entertaining book.It's about a fabulously wealthy elephant named Uncle who rules his house named Homeward, which is also a sky-scraper city. He is rich because of all the dwarves

Crazy fun with wicked villains like Beaver Hateman who live in Badfort, Uncle the Elephant who lives in a castle so large he hasn't seen all of it, and fun minor characters like Old Monkey and Goodman the cat. Love the illustrations by Quentin Blake.



Still own my childhhod copy - its comfort reading thst I retrun to regularly.

An absolute treasure of a book. Originally published in 1964 and brought back into print by New York Review Books. Uncle is a fabulously wealthy elephant whose home (appropriately called Homeward) is too big to be called a mansion, or even a castle; it is a city unto itself where some of the smaller towers are only thirty stories high. Uncles' wealth seems to come mainly from the rent he charges the inhabitants of Homeward- one shilling monthly, which isn't much but considering how many dwarfs

So much owed to J.P Martin by the likes of Dahl and Ian Fleming ( Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, not Bond!). In Uncle's realm, you will meet eccentric villains who need the Hero, our beloved Uncle-- to fill their time with plans for mayhem and marauding-as much as the Hero needs them in order to conquer, vanquish and be heroic.One of my standards for a fine children's book is, does the book begin with a map and or list of characters? Uncle has both. This is possibly the finest read-aloud ever for

As a fan of works like Alice in Wonderland, Phantom Tollbooth, and The 13 Clocks, I expected to love this one, but it just fell flat for me.