Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

I remember them from childhood, so they must have made some impression on me at the time, though upon rereading the Project Gutenberg versions, the stories strike me as too gooily saccharine for kids today, though there's nothing harmful in them. Writing styles have just changed too much in the past......more

Interesting for young ones and funny but somewhat repetitive.......more

I love Uncle Wiggily. When I was a kid, in the seventies and eighties, my parents used to read these stories to my brothers and I from antique copies that came from our family, or that we had picked up in used bookstores. These books really captured the rural, outdoors, fantasy-saturated world that......more

I'm giving this five stars partly out of nostalgia, and partly because I found an old copy from my grandparents' basement (according to the flyleaf, it was a gift to my aunt in the early 50s), and I remembered my dad reading these stories to me, and I was kind of worried that it might be sneakily ra......more

Was read to when young. I especially remember stories regarding measles and mumps, as I had these when introduced to Mr. Long Ears. These stories are not in this collection, so I guess I will have to seek my fortune elsewhere. Ha Ha, not another case of measles and mumps but the stories. I can't bel......more