A pamphlet style paperback book with a children’s tale about Uncle Wiggly. Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children’s stories by American author Howard R. Garis and illustrated by George Carlson. Howard R. Garis began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. Uncle Wiggily, an engaging elderly rabbit, is lame from rheumatism. Wherever he goes, he always relies on a red, white, and blue crutch-described as being ‘striped like a barber-pole.’ 1939/USA