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Howard R. Garis (1873–1962)

Autor de Uncle Wiggily's Story Book

264+ Obras 4,243 Miembros 19 Reseñas 4 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Howard R. Garis was born in 1873 in Binghamton, New York. A popular author and journalist, he wrote many mystery and adventure books for children, as well as newspaper and magazine stories. His very first Uncle Wiggily story was published in The Newark News in January 1910, and was an immediate mostrar más success. For the next fifty years, a new Uncle Wiggily adventure appeared almost daily, and the series was nationally syndicated. Howard Garis died in 1962 mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Howard R. Garis & Uncle Wiggly

Series

Obras de Howard R. Garis

Uncle Wiggily's Story Book (1921) 756 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (1924) 93 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Automobile (1913) 69 copias
The Uncle Wiggily Book (1953) 67 copias
Uncle Wiggily to the Rescue (1988) 66 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Airship (1915) 58 copias
Uncle Wiggily on the Farm (1918) 56 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Travels (1913) 55 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (1942) 47 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Happy Days (1946) 47 copias
Sammie and Susie Littletail (1910) 35 copias
Uncle Wiggily Stories (1965) 21 copias
Uncle Wiggily in the Woods (1917) 16 copias
Uncle Wiggily and the Canoe (1939) 15 copias
Dick Hamilton's Airship (1914) 15 copias
Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days (1910) 14 copias
Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg (1913) 14 copias
Uncle Wiggily (2019) 13 copias
Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow (1912) 13 copias
Teddy and the Mystery Dog (1936) 11 copias
Charlie and Arabella Chick (1914) 11 copias
Uncle Wiggily and Kitty Kat (1996) 10 copias
Apple Dumplings (1939) 10 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Funny Auto (1929) 10 copias
Curly and Floppy Twistytail (1918) 10 copias
Uncle Wiggily Plays Indian Hunter (1931) — Autor — 9 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Auto Sled (1924) 9 copias
Dick Hamilton's Fortune (1909) 8 copias
Nannie and Billie Wagtail (1915) 7 copias
Bully and Bawly No-Tail (1915) 7 copias
Three Little Trippertrots (1912) 6 copias
With Force and Arms (1902) 6 copias
The White Crystals (1904) 6 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Journey (1915) 5 copias
Umboo the Elephant (1918) 5 copias
Uncle Wiggily Longears (1915) 4 copias
Daddy Takes Us Skating (1914) 4 copias
Uncle Wiggily Starts Off (1943) 4 copias
Rocket Riders in the Air (1934) 3 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Ice Boat (1931) 3 copias
Daddy Takes Us Coasting (1914) 3 copias
Tom Cardiff's Circus (1927) 3 copias
Saving the old mill (1930) 2 copias
Mostly Mary 2 copias
Uncle Wiggily's Holidays (1936) 2 copias
Tuftoo The Clown (1928) 2 copias
Daddy Takes Us Fishing (1914) 1 copia
Uncle Wiggily's Radio (1929) 1 copia
Isle of Black Fire (1904) 1 copia
Tam of the Fire Cave (1927) 1 copia
Snarlie the Tiger (1916) 1 copia
Woo-Uff the Lion (1917) 1 copia
Uncle Wiggily's Snow Man (1924) 1 copia
Uncle Wiggily's Picnic (1929) 1 copia

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Garis, Howard R.
Nombre legal
Garis, Howard Roger
Otros nombres
Appleton, Victor
Chadwick, Lester
Davidson, Marion
Hope, Laura Lee
Powell, Van
Sperry, Raymond (mostrar todos 7)
Young, Clarence
Fecha de nacimiento
1873-04-23
Fecha de fallecimiento
1962-11-06
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Binghamton, New York, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Lugares de residencia
East Orange, New Jersey, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Binghamton, New York, USA
Ocupaciones
reporter
author
Relaciones
Garis, Lilian (wife)
Garis, Roger (son)
Garis, Leslie (granddaughter)
Organizaciones
Neward [New Jersey] Evening News
Biografía breve
Howard R. Garis was a reporter for the Evening News in Newark, New Jersey. He, along with his wife, Lilian, also a writer and the first newspaperwoman in New Jersey, and their two grown children, wrote adventure stores under various names for juvenile literature syndicator Edward L. Stratemeyer. Fortune magazine dubbed then "The Writing Garises" in 1934. They wrote more than 500 titles, and all or part of a dozen series, including Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins, and Baseball Joe. E. M. Scudder asked Garis to write children's stories for the Evening News, and these became the Uncle Wiggily Longears series, which Lilian Garis continued after her husband's death in 1962. [adapted from Favorite Uncle Wiggily Animal Bedtime Stores, introduction (1998)]

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Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible, book 33 in the original series, was first published in 1930, or seven years before the famous Hindenburg disaster, but our intrepid inventor makes use of a fictionsl less explosive gas Tom invented (safer than nitrogen, but not as safe as helium, we're told), and a fictional metal called 'oralum' to build his huge dirigible. It was commissioned by Mr. Martin Jardine of the Jardine Company. Martin Jardine is not the easiest customer to work with. There's a chapter in which he brings in several impractical ideas and doesn't want to listen to Tom.

The airship in the third book in the orginal series, Tom Swift and His Airship, was named the Red Cloud. The dirigible is named the Silver Cloud.

Tom's father becomes ill early in the book. Mr. Swift, Tom's wife, Mary, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nestor, are spending some time at a lovely hotel on Mount Camon. The fact that the surrounding forest is very dry is mentioned several times.

There are misadventures in the book. Tom takes his family and in-laws to the hotel in the house on wheels from book 32. On the way, they help a couple with a traveling marionette show whose van has overturned. The Notines go on to provide entertainment at the hotel on Mt. Carmon. Not long after that rescue, the house on wheels is caught in a disaster of its own.

The Silver Cloud runs into an interesting problem during one of its test flights, but the climax of the book involves a forest fire. (This is no spoiler. The original title of the book was Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible; or Adventures Over the Forest of Fire.) Tom and his employees have their work cut out for them to save some people who are trapped in that fire.

The only downside to this book is the way some characters are portrayed. Pietro and Maria Notine, the Italian (or Italian-American) marionettists, are merely passionate about their work. The Italian (or Italian-American) hotel gardener, Cosso Tobini, is described as 'evil-faced' as well as being less than sane when it comes to guests picking the roses. (Decades ago I knew a Red Cross volunteer who was retired military and Civil Service. He had been called 'Italian' when he was young, although I think he was born in Connecticut. He used to tell me that when he was young he was Italian, but now he's considered a WASP.) The Swifts' faithful African-American employee, Eradicate, speaks in stereotypical dialect for the era. So does the giant employee Koku. There's a dwarf named James Chock who is treated as a suspicious character. If you can hold your nose for those portrayals, this is an enjoyable read.
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JalenV | Jan 18, 2024 |
Vintage small hardcover with paste-on cover. Beautiful, detailed illustrations on each page. Binding good. Finger smudges on margins expected on this book from 1922. Great Lang Campbell artwork! Endpapers intact. 12 books listed inside front of this series.
 
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marietybur | Aug 29, 2023 |
Originally, the stories were serialized in newspapers so parents could read them to children. The stories were popular enough that they were gathered into books and preserved. Each story still ends with "If this improbable situation doesn't happen, I'll tell you the story of" with the title of the next story. Once upon a time, when I was young, my grandmother read these stories (she had them in books) to my brother and me. My mother also shared her books with me when I was old enough to read them on my own.

This collection focuses on Uncle Wiggily and his search to find his fortune. Uncle Wiggily happens to be a rabbit who had served in the Great War (back when there was only one) and now has rheumatism and gets along with a walking stick. Uncle Wiggily makes many friends as he travels and helps those who need them. And those good deeds done unselfishly often result in help when he needs it: not a bad lesson to learn.

Suggested as stories read to children or as a trip down nostalgia lane.
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Jean_Sexton | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 26, 2021 |
The very first Tom Swift book, from 1910, is a bit of fun, but only a bit. It is a far cry from the science-fictional Tom Swift I read a few adventures of in the 1960s. Those books were from a later, much different second series. This book is very much grounded in 1910, and the setting (New York State) is quite interesting. Not so interesting is the book's casual racism as Tom meets up with a black man named Eradicate Sampson, who is called a "darky" numerous times and refers to himself as a "coon". Each time Tom meets him, he is sitting hopelessly while some machine or another fails to work, which Tom, of course, fixes quickly, leaving Eradicate marveling at how smart he is. Throughout the book, Tom is referred to as "the young inventor" or "our hero". Of course, this is hardly a book for adults. Kids are supposed to admire Tom for his intelligence and his industriousness, although he makes more than one mistake during the book that gets him into trouble (and prolongs the plot.) The plot itself is modern enough. A group of men, working for some unscrupulous lawyers, are trying to steal an invention from Tom's father, inventor Barton Swift. When reading a book like this, one knows it will have a happy ending, but dark clouds still loom ahead, as in the tradition of other books from the same publishing syndicate, the next adventure is introduced on the final pages. I can't say I didn't enjoy reading this, but it is definitely lacking the plotting and characterization of the best Hardy Boys books I remember from my youth.… (más)
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datrappert | Jul 19, 2020 |

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