UNCLE WIGGILY GOES SWIMMING plus 2 other Uncle Wiggily Stories

By Howard R. Garis

UNCLE WIGGILY goes SWIMMING is the 18th Uncle Wiggily picture book by Howard Garis and contains 3 action-packed children’s stories with 29 colourful illustrations. The extra 2 stories in this volume are UNCLE WIGGILY DISTRIBUTES THANKSGIVING CAKES and THE BUNNY RABBIT GENTLEMAN MAKES A KITE. As with everything Uncle Wiggily gets involved in, each story is an engaging adventure in itself.

Each story is short enough to be read to 3 to 5 year olds at bed time with bright, colourful images to keep children engaged throughout the story with a picture per page.

UNCLE WIGGILY is an engaging elderly rabbit and is lame from rheumatism. Wherever he goes, he always relies on a red, white, and blue crutch—described as being "striped like a barber-pole", or, in later episodes, "his candy-striped walking cane", with spiral red and white striping like a peppermint candy stick.
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UNCLE WIGGILY LONGEARS is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. He then penned an Uncle Wiggily story every day (except Sundays) for more than 52 years, and published 79 books in his lifetime. According to his obituary in the Chicago Tribune, “a walk in the woods in Verona, New Jersey was his inspiration.”
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KEYWORDS/TAGS: Uncle Wiggily, swimming, thanksgiving, cakes, bunny rabbit, gentleman, kite, Bully frog, Bawly frog, No Tail the frog, frog boys, Mr Longears, dive, jump, springboard, stuck, raft, upside down, pond, fuzzy fox, froggie, hop, nurse jane, wolf, mr twistytail, pig, uncle butter, goat, charge, poster, horns, butt, police dog, Percival, woozie wolf, nibble, catch, caught, basket, rice pudding, mosquito net, eggbeater, chocolate cake, kite, moon, Jackie Bow Wow, Sammie the rabbit, sticks, paper, string, fuzzy wuzzy, hard knot, chimney, grandpa goosey, aunt lettie, bonnet, sail, fly, cord, woofie, wuffie,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Oct 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220208666

Book preview

1. One day, as Uncle Wiggily was hopping through the woods, he looked toward a pond and saw Bully and Bawly No Tail, the frog boys, jumping from the end of the spring board. Ah, that reminds me of the time I was young! thought the bunny gentleman. As long as Nurse Jane isn’t here I’m going to dive in and swim. Into the swimming hole splashed Bully and Bawly as the bunny rabbit took off his coat.

2. Oh, hurray! Here’s Uncle Wiggily! croaked Bully. Come on in, the water’s fine! rumbled Bawly. Thanks, I’ll try, though I am not a very good swimmer or diver, answered Mr. Longears. He stood on the end of the teeter-tauter spring board. One, two, three! counted Bully. Jump in! Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink nose, and, hoping he would not get too much water up it, in he jumped!

3. Uncle Wiggily did not think he was going to jump so hard, but he did and his head was stuck in the mud of the pond bottom. Blubble! Ubble! Blub! cried the poor rabbit gentleman. Quick! We must pull him out! Get hold of his other leg! croaked Bully. The two froggie boys, on the end of the spring