- Fiction, Great-aunts, Humorous stories, Great-uncles
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
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Comic, classical in form, resolved and effortless.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Philip Ardagh
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 129
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571203543
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Philip Ardagh is an English children's author, primarily known for the Eddie Dickens series of books. He has written more than 100 books including adult fiction and children's non-fiction. During 2004 and 2005 Ardagh collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney and illustrator-animator Geoff Dunbar to create McCartney's first children's book, High in the Clouds. Published simultaneously in the UK and US and other countries in October 2005, there was an initial print run of half-a-million copies in the United States. The Observer called it "a tale about the perils of unchecked global capitalism". Source: wikipedia
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