My Curious Uncle Dudley

Invicius Ponticius Supalicius. . .Magilili . . . Lililiculus?

Duncan Peckle's young life changes forever the day his mysterious relative—Uncle Dudley of the great voyages—arrives in Mt. Geranium for the summer. No sooner have Duncan's parents left him in his uncle's care than a curious package arrives from a certain Knichtbubel Institute. Quickly the attic guest room is aswarm with secrets of the awesome magical researches of Dr. Julius Feathergold— and one shrunken head.

So unfolds a season of curiously phenomenal misdoings, of reckless dangers
and preposterous misadventures—from summoning goblins to zooming
wildly on the night air like the famed bubble riders of old Nanking. Not to mention chaos with .a love elixir. . . .

Complemented by Tony Auth's wry drawings, Barry Yourgrau's moon-touched sorcerer's apprentice tale is at once hilarious and poignant, nostalgic and timeless—a truly magical tour de force.