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   Uncle And The Battle For Badgertown. by. J.P. Martin, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) 4.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions. Want to Read saving….

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   The eldest child was Helen Estella Martin (1907–1994), known as Stella Martin. She was to 1984 her father's official biographer, her work appearing in 2017 as Stella Martin Currey edited by James Martin Currey, under the title J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle: A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition 1879–1966 ; [ 20 ] and also editor of the three Uncle books that appeared after his death.

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   Jun 1, 2009 · After J. P. Martin’s death his daughter Stella compiled enough stories for a further five books, the last of which, Uncle and the Battle for Badgertown, was published in 1973 (price £1.75). For the benefit of those unfamiliar with Uncle I should explain that he is an extremely rich elephant, lord of a vast Manhattan-like castle called Homeward, a collection of interconnected towers most of ...

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   The official biography by Stella Martin Currey, J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle: A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition 1879-1966 (written 1984; 2017) includes several deleted chapters and original versions of revised passages from the novels. [DRL] see also: Dogs; Zoo. John Percival Martin. born Scarborough, North Yorkshire: 5 August 1879

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   Martin began telling Uncle stories to entertain his children, who later asked him to write them down so that they could read them to their own children; the stories were finally published as a book in 1. J.P. Martin (1879-1966) was born in Yorkshire into a family of Methodist ministers.

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Uncle_(novel)Uncle (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Uncle (1964) is a children's novel written by J. P. Martin, the first book of six forming the Uncle series. [1] It is named after the main character, a rich philanthropic elephant who lives in a huge fantastical castle populated by many other eccentric animals and people. It was illustrated, like the others in the series, by Quentin Blake .

8. www.penguin.co.uk › authors › 162126J. P. Martin - Penguin Books UK

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   J.P.Martin was born in Scarborough in 1879. He became a Methodist minister in 1902 and served as a missionary in South Africa and as an army chaplain in Palestine in 1918 at the time when Allenby and T.E. Lawrence overwhelmed the Turks. J.P.Martin and his wife Nancy moved circuits every three years and worked among miners and slum dwellers, as ...