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Uncle
J. P. Martin
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Description for Uncle
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Blake, Quentin. Series: A Puffin Book. Num Pages: 208 pages, black and white line. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFH; YFP; YFQ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. 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 also frequently fights with the inhabitants of ... Read more
The wonderfully eccentric adventures of a kind-hearted elephant, hugely enjoyed by children and adults alike, by J. P. Martin and illustrated by Quentin Blake. 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 also frequently fights with the inhabitants of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
A Puffin Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141379227
SKU
V9780141379227
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99-99
About J. P. Martin
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 at the time when Allenby and T.E. Lawrence overwhelmed the Turks. J.P.Martin and his wife Nancy moved circuits every three years and worked among miners and slum dwellers, as ... Read more
Reviews for Uncle
A classic in the great English nonsense tradition
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