Uncle
$25.87
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2017
Summary
Welcoming the fabulous adventures of UNCLE to A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.
Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He lives in a labyrinth of skyscrapers connected by water chutes, lifts and railways, and littered with oil lakes, walls of sweets and towers of treacle. He and his followers amuse themselves by exploring his home and falling into adventures with its inhabitants, a collection of lunatics, dwarfs and ghosts. Uncle a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141379227 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141379227 |
| Author: | J.P. Martin, Quentin Blake |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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A classic in the great English nonsense tradition
A classic in the great English nonsense tradition * Observer *
About The Author
J.P. Martin
J.P. Martin (Author)
J.P. Martin was born in Scarborough in 1879. He became a Methodist minister in 1902 and served as a missionary in South Africa and as an army chaplain in Palestine in 1918. J.P. Martin and his wife Nancy moved circuits every three years and worked among miners and slum dwellers, as well as among the comfortably off. He started telling the Uncle stories before the First World War and in 1934 the writers Stella Martin and R.N Currey urged him to write them down; it took thirty years before they got them accepted by Jonathan Cape in the satire rich sixties. Reviewers welcomed each of the six books as they were published between 1964 and 1973. J.P. Martin was 84 when Uncle was published and he was able to enjoy his late success before he died two years later in 1966.
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children’s Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.
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