Uncle is a millionaire elephant who wears a purple dressing gown and lives in a labyrinth of skyscrapers connected by water chutes, lifts and railways, and littered with oil lakes, walls of sweets and towers of treacle. He and his followers amuse themselves by exploring his home and falling into adventures with its inhabitants, a collection of lunatics, dwarfs and ghosts. Uncle also frequently fights with the inhabitants of neighbouring Badfort, among them the repulsive Jellytussles (a quivering blob) and the cowardly Hitmouse. Includes: Uncle, and Uncle Cleans Up

 

This book features in the following series: Red Fox Story Collections, Uncle .

There are 432 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2000 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

J. P. Martin was born in Scarborough in 1880. He had two sons and two daughters. He died in March 1966.