The Second Adventures of Uncle Wiggily: The Bunny Rabbit Gentleman and His Muskrat Lady Housekeeper

For over two decades, children waking up to their newspapers found their mornings made brighter by the gentle adventures of Uncle Wiggily, a bucktooth bunny gentleman who walks with a cane and faces the world with unfailing courtesy. This 1925 collection gathers his autumn and winter escapades, from searching for the perfect pumpkin to ice boating across frozen ponds, always with his muskrat housekeeper Nurse Jane bustling behind him. Garis understood something precious: that childhood needs villains who are really quite silly, danger that turns into tea, and friends who argue but always return. The bear and bobcat mean trouble, of course, but Uncle Wiggily outsmarts them with cleverness rather than violence, setting traps that snap shut on mischief itself. These are stories where Thanksgiving means gratitude and pumpkins, where Christmas brings wonder rather than commercialism, where an alligator might chase you but you'll escape somehow, probably laughing. The prose bubbles along with repetition and charm, reading like a kinder, gentler era remembered with perfect pitch. For parents seeking books their great-grandparents loved, for children ready for chapter books with pictures, for anyone who believes a rabbit in a red scarf with a walking cane is exactly how a gentleman should look.