#howard garis

[picturebookshelf]

Uncle Wiggily and the Red Monkey (1943)

Story: Howard R Garis -- Art: Mary and Wallace Stover

[puutterings]

magnetos, potato-parers and the like; my latest hobby

        “I’ve been thinking of this for some time, Ned. I’ve been puttering around inventing new magnetos, potato-parers and the like, and this is my latest hobby. The Panama Canal is a big thing — one of the biggest things in the world. We need the biggest guns in the world to protect it.       “And, listen: Uncle Sam thinks the same way...”

ex Victor Appleton [Howard Garis], Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon; or The Longest Shots on Record (1913) : 26 U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link U California copy/scan (via archive.org) : link

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more on, and around, at 501  

[ronk]

Half the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward.

Howard Garis

[doverpublications-blog]

These days, Uncle Wiggily may be best known for being an element of J.D. Salinger's Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, a short story in the Nine Stories collection. However, the character created by Howard Roger Garis was very popular in the early twentieth century and the amusing tales of the gentlemanly rabbit are quite timeless.

While Dover has published several volumes of Uncle Wiggily stories (Including the above-pictured Adventures of Uncle Wiggily that includes breath-taking re-colored versions of Louis Wisa's original art), Garis published a vast amount of animal tales.  There were a great variety of artists that worked on the Wiggily books throughout the years.  These images are from some staple-bound copies published in 1943 by the American Crayon Company.  There were a series of 10 and they had cover art by Mary and Wallace Stover.

Some of the interior art is rather peculiar as the Wiggily stories often veered into wild fantasy.  See above for Uncle Wigs seemingly bitten by a fish with legs.

[elcomfortador]

Pipsisewah and Skeezicks, as they appeared in an old edition of Uncle Wiggily.

… Is it weird if my first reaction is “This has to be racist, on some level”?

Via.

[sleepyneuf]

Mmm wish I was a raccoon eating pie

[sleepyneuf]

Valentine's Gift from Mom

My mother sent me my Great Uncle Dave's books from when he was a child in the mid 1920s to 1930s for Valentine's Day. When I was a kid I would secretly find the metal key and slip it into the hole to open up the glass cabinet where all of his Just So, Uncle Wiggly, and Children's Classics were kept and then hole up in the back room where no one could see me so I could read them. I always thought no one noticed me sneaking the books out, but I guess moms are always secretly paying attention.

Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard Roger Garis. He began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily story every day (except Sundays) for more than 30 years, and published seventy-nine books within the author's lifetime.[1][2] The books are illustrated by August Lenox.