Uncle cleans up;: More Uncle stories
J. P Martin
Hardcover
(Coward-McCann, Aug. 16, 1967)
Here are more riotous stories about Uncle, an autocratic but kindly elephant who lives in an enourmous castle called Homeward like "a hundred skyscrapers all joined together and surrounded by a moat." Once again, Uncle and his loyal followers, the Little Monkey, Butterskin Mute, the cat Goodman and many more battle friercely with the Badfort crowd, a scruffy unpleasant bunch who live in the dingy fortress of Badfort right across the moat. In an exciting climax, Uncle is captured at a banana sale, and the Little Monkey spends his life savings for a spell to help him escape. The Badfort gang are routed, but, as Uncle knows too well, they'll probably be back for more. As delightful in every way as Uncle, which the Chicago Tribune called "magnificent nonsense," this is a book for all lovers of the absurd.