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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (Uncle Wiggily)
Uncle Wiggily Longears in this book by Howard Roger Garis.
Uncle Wiggily, an engaging elderly rabbit, is lame from rheumatism. Whenever he goes anywhere, he always relies on what Garis describes as "his candy-striped walking cane" - this is a cane striped red and white like a peppermint candy cane.
The books are illustrated by August Lenox.
Uncle Wiggily, an engaging elderly rabbit, is lame from rheumatism. Whenever he goes anywhere, he always relies on what Garis describes as "his candy-striped walking cane" - this is a cane striped red and white like a peppermint candy cane.
The books are illustrated by August Lenox.
77 pages
Published
1912
by A.L. Burt Company
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I remember them from childhood, so they must have made some impression on me at the time, though upon rereading the Project Gutenberg versions, the stories strike me as too gooily saccharine for kids today, though there's nothing harmful in them.
Writing styles have just changed too much in the past hundred years, I guess.
Writing styles have just changed too much in the past hundred years, I guess.
Really needs 3 and a half. Uncle Wiggily is sent out via Dr. Possum to go on travels. Seeking his fortune is the pretext behind this, in order so that he might travel to help his rheumatism by moving about more. The adventures are filled with many critters of the forest and a number of insects, as well as bad guys and giants and a circuses and fairs; All that is fit in the usual run of Uncle Wiggily's escapades. Originally published in 1912, so there are a few definitions and descriptions of thi...more
This is the first book I remember. My brother read this to me when I was very young.
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A read this over and over as a young child. I loved these characters.
flesch-kincaid reading ease: 88.9
My grannie read from this every night that I would sleep-over there. While the details of the stories are lost in the sands of time, even the thought of the name Uncle Wiggily or Nurse Jane warms my heart.
My parents used to read Uncle Wiggily to me every night and this wonderful children's series is still one of my favorites.
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This is not the book I have on Uncle Wiggly but they don't show the one I have.
I loved these tales as a kid.
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Howard R. Garis graduated from Binghamton High School and attended Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey. From 1896 to 1947, Mr. Garis was a reporter and special writer for the Newark, New Jersey "Evening News." His Uncle Wiggily stories first appeared in the "News" in 1910, were sydicated in 1915, and continued to be published for more than forty years, at one time appearing in o...more
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