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  • Published: 18 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141379227
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $19.99

Uncle



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 also frequently fights with the inhabitants of neighbouring Badfort, among them the repulsive Jellytussles (a quivering blob) and the cowardly Hitmouse.

  • Published: 18 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141379227
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $19.99

About the authors

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.

Praise for Uncle

A classic in the great English nonsense tradition

Observer