#howard r garis

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Uncle Wiggily and the Red Monkey (1943)

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

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It's the birthday of writer Howard R. Garis (books by this author), born in Binghamton, New York (1873). His most famous character is Uncle Wiggily, a gentlemanly old rabbit who always wears a suit and a silk top hat. Garis was a reporter for the Newark Evening News and he wrote hundreds of children's books, many of them as a ghostwriter. He published his first Uncle Wiggily story in a newspaper in 1910, and it was so popular that he ended up publishing an Uncle Wiggily story six days a week for more than 30 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 10,000 stories about the rabbit. He wrote, "Half the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward."

 Howard R. Garis (books by this author)

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/04/25