There was a new Uncle Wiggily Bedtime Story every working day, six stories a week, and each one ended with a humorous little closing that set the mind spinning and told the title of the next story to come.The Evening News had become the first paper anywhere to hand-deliver a serialized bedtime story just in time for Moms and Dads to read their youngsters off to sleep.The stories were soon running in daily papers around the country and beyond. The tales were amusing and adventurous but not frightening, and the characters had delightful names and charming expressions.Children loved them.

Howard Gaffs (1873-1962) was a young reporter for the Newark Evening News when he first started writing stories for children about a lovable rabbit named Uncle Wiggily. Calling them "bedtime stories" (apparently the first time the term was used), he created a widely syndicated series that eventually totaled hundreds of tales.This volume the only inexpensive paperbound edition availableincludes 11 of the best stories from the series, relating the longeared cottontail"s adventures with the Lost Chipmunk, the Black Cricket, the Doll Doctor, the Lazy Duck, the Pinching Bug and other appealing characters.Printed in large, easy-to-read type and enhanced with 27 new vignettes, these delightful stories will captivate today"s young readers as much as they did youngsters in the early 20th centuy.

Uncle Wiggily and the Lost Chipmunk

Uncle Wiggily and the Black Cricket

Uncle Wiggily and the Doll Doctor

Uncle Wiggily and the Dentist

Uncle Wiggily and the Lazy Duck

Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose

Uncle Wiggily"s Big Bounce

Uncle Wiggily and the Pinching Bug

Uncle Wiggily and the Lemons

Uncle Wiggily"s Accident

Uncle Wiggily and the Cricket