Uncle
By J.P. Martin Illustrated by Quentin Blake
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Online price: £9.99
This title is currently availableHardback, 176pp Published: 7th May 2009 Category: Fiction 10+ Interest age, years: From 9 To 12
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"A great comic masterpiece." - Oldie
Reprint of the year. A kind of 'Gormanghast' for children of eight and up, this is a very funny book. - Financial Times
Like all great children's writing, people delight in finding multiple levels of meaning. Uncle's entertaining nonsense makes it perfect for children (and adults), while some readers claim it exposes society's hypocrisies and critiques capitalism. - 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
This brilliant flight of nonsense for children of eight and older has long been hard to obtain; this is a fittingly classy reprint. - Financial Times
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 Badfort Crowd. Each Uncle story introduces a new character from Uncle's madcap world, 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.
176 pages
