Uncle Wiggily and the Sugar Cookie

Uncle Wiggily #26

by Howard R. Garis, Aldren Watson (Illustrator)

Uncle Wiggily helps a young rabbit find a place to test a new pair of rubber boots for leaks.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1939

About the author

Howard Roger 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 one hundred newspapers.

Howard R. Garis wrote 35 volumes of Uncle Wiggily stories under his own name, as well as numerous other children's books under several pseudonyms. Among series Garis contributed to are Tom Swift (as Victor Appleton), the Bobbsey Twins (as Laura Lee Hope), the Motor Boys (as Clarence Young), the Great Marvel series, and books featuring Baseball Joe (as Lester Chadwick) and the Camp Fire Girls (as Marion Davidson). He also wrote "With Force of Arms" (1902), four volumes of the Rocket Riders series, and seven volumes of the Teddy series. His wife, Lilian McNamara Garas, whom he married in 1900, collaborated on several of his books including the Bobbsey Twins volumes.

He had a son, Roger.

Reviews

[Corey Burton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this when I was a kid. Illustrations always creeped me out.

[Cherlynn Womack · Rating 5 out of 5]

A cute, but short adventure.

[Nancy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh these new versions are such a disappointment.