Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Uncle Terrible
    Uncle Terrible
    Uncle Terrible
    Audiobook2 hours

    Uncle Terrible

    Written by Nancy Willard

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Anatole's adventure begins and ends quietly beside the rosy brick dollhouse in Uncle Terrible's living room. But everything in between the beginning and the end is like a 3-dimensional comic strip dream. Anatole is the only one who can rescue Uncle Terrible and his friend Rosemarie from the wizard Arcimboldo's enchantments. Everything depends on the outcome of a wacky game of checkers, the unweaving of a magical cloak, and a slightly dopey bat.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 19, 2008
    ISBN9781436144315
    Uncle Terrible
    Author

    Nancy Willard

    Nancy Willard has loved William Blake’s poetry from the day she first heard it. While writing the poems in this book, she built a six-foot model of the inn, decorating it with moons, suns, stars, and prints of Blake’s paintings. The model with its residents—the characters that appear in this volume—stands in her living room. Nancy Willard published her first book when a high school senior—an inset in the Horn Book, which was called A Child’s Star. Formerly a lecturer in the English department at Vassar College, she is the author of a number of well-received children’s books, including Sailing to Cythera: And Other Anatole Stories and The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole, both winners of a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. 

    More audiobooks from Nancy Willard

    Related to Uncle Terrible

    Related audiobooks

    Children's Fantasy & Magic For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Quarantine Bookshelf

      Mar 19, 2021

      The Quarantine Bookshelf
      4 min read

    • Article

      'The Hazel Wood' Has Few Uses For Enchantment

      Jan 30, 2018

      In Melissa Albert's dark take on fairy tales, 17-year-old Alice has spent her entire life on the run from her family legacy: a terrifying mythical world created by her grandmother, a famous author.

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Wandering Mind

      Jan 13, 2022

      A Wandering Mind
      5 min read

    • Article

      Favorite First Sentences

      Sep 1, 2021

      Favorite First Sentences
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Popular Creation Story of Astronomy Is Wrong

      May 17, 2018

      In the early years of the 17th century, Johannes Kepler argued that the universe contained thousands of mighty bodies, bodies so huge that they could be universes themselves. These giant bodies, said Kepler, testified to the immense power of, as well

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Book Eaters

      Aug 10, 2022

      The Book Eaters
      1 min read

    • Article

      Joan Of Arc’s Doomed Campaign

      Jul 11, 2019

      Born as Jehanne d’Arc, nicknamed the “Maid of Orléans” and universally known as “Joan of Arc”, France’s national heroine was a medieval figure like no other. A crossdressing, teenage peasant girl who claimed to hear divine voices, Joan defied every s

      11 min read

    • Article

      Madeleine L’Engle’s Early Short Stories Presage ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

      Apr 17, 2020

      A reviewer reflects on reading “The Moment of Tenderness,” a collection of short stories, and then returning to the 1963 novel she loved growing up.

      2 min read

    • Article

      How Dark Were The Dark Ages?

      Feb 20, 2020

      How Dark Were The Dark Ages?
      10 min read

    • Article

      A Magical Mystery Tour

      Aug 20, 2021

      A Magical Mystery Tour
      4 min read

    • Article

      A WING AND a prayer

      Sep 28, 2021

      A raven saved my life Cate McMurray, 47, from West Midlands I ’d always known I was different. As a small child, I used to see and hear people who weren’t there. One day, I was playing hide ‘n’ seek with my two sisters, and tucked myself away in a cu

      4 min read

    • Article

      Tasty Tomes

      Sep 11, 2021

      Tasty Tomes
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Best Fiction Reads Of 2018: The Monitor's Picks

      Dec 5, 2018

      A reimagining of 'Beowulf' and Anne Tyler's latest are two of the works of fiction that made the cut for our list.

      2 min read

    • Article

      10 Quick Questions

      Jan 10, 2021

      1. Which movie begins with the words: “People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood, but it did happen”? ❑ Old Yeller ❑ True Grit ❑ The Call of the Wild ❑ Little Women 2.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Cherubs

      Jul 5, 2023

      Cherubs
      10 min read

    • Article

      All Of Us Here

      Jun 4, 2020

      All Of Us Here
      6 min read

    • Article

      Like Ripe Fruit

      Nov 5, 2020

      Like Ripe Fruit
      7 min read

    • Article

      J. Jezewska Stevens

      Dec 15, 2017

      The party was a failure. I can’t even tell you what a failure it was. There are no words. Only a great pain in my chest when I wake up. On the veranda. It’s better when I sit in the chair. Oh, but then I can see around. The gauzy curtains, pushed by

      15 min read

    • Article

      Excerpts From The Works Of The 2024 Whiting Award Winners

      Apr 10, 2024

      The 2024 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Below are excerpts from their work.

      19 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Uncle Terrible

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words