Daniel Pinkwater
Daniel Pinkwater has created many weird and whimsical children's stories that play on the absurdity of reality, among them The Hoboken Chicken's Emergency, Miss Nelson Is Coming, and The Picture of Morty and Ray. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears
 4 1/2 * Bearly Disguised: Something about New England apparently attracts writers to bears. Notably, there is John Updike, who managed to place bears in "The Hotel New Hampshire," and other books, and there's the Pinkwater (Dan and Jill), who [... more]
$5.95
Amazon.com |
Wallpaper From Space
Amazon.com Review: All the changes around Steve's house are not much appreciated, especially when his mom starts redecorating his room. But the spaceship wallpaper she puts up has some special features he finds awfully exciting. NPR commentator Daniel [... more]
$15.00
Amazon.com |
Bad Bear Detectives: An Irving and Muktuk Story (Irving ...
On the Waterfront: Those Bayonne Bears are back, and there's not a safe muffin in all of New Jersey. "Bad Bear Detectives" is another delicious book in Daniel and Jill Pinkwater's hilarious "Irving and Muktuk" series, and it's one of [... more]
$16.00
Amazon.com |
Yo-yo Man
4 1/2* The Few, The Brave, The Yo-Yo Men: Whatever one may think of the "values" presented here, the 1* review does not do justice to the superior writing and story-telling ability of Daniel Pinkwater. A Pinkwater book, whether in one of his [... more]
$17.89
Amazon.com |
The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to ...
turtles all the way down: I loved this book. I think I get what it is about, not worrying about things, resting in God (or on the great turtle). It reminds me of an essay by an Episcopalian minister, Barbara Brown Taylor (The Luminous Web, The Limits of [... more]
$16.00
Amazon.com |
Ice Cream Larry
Amazon.com Review: Larry is a polar bear who, as we discover in Young Larry, falls asleep on a chunk of ice in Baffin Bay and wakes up in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded on a beach, what else can he do but become a lifeguard to earn money to buy the [... more]
$15.95
Amazon.com |
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
cute book: THis is actually one where I liked the movie better (Wonderworks did one maybe 20 years ago now, and it might just be nostalgia that makes me love that). Pinkwater is genius, and this is a good book-- it's just not the GREAT book I was hoping [... more]
$4.99
Amazon.com |
Bad Bears go Visiting (Irving & Muktuk Story)
not the best: Irving and Muktuk are two bad polar bears. They are back in action with this installment of the new picture book. This time they decide they want to escape the zoo and go out "visiting" Join them for their zany night out in the [... more]
$16.00
Amazon.com |
5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars; Slaves of ...
Amazon.com Review: There are many words that could be used to describe Daniel Pinkwater's books. Wacky comes to mind. Outrageous. Lively. Real. Unreal. Comic genius Jules Feiffer, in his foreword to 5 Novels, says, "Pinkwater's thoughts don't [... more]
$11.95
Amazon.com |
The Education of Robert Nifkin
Amazon.com Review: The Education of Robert Nifkin is clearly the work of a disturbed mind. But then, if you've read Daniel Pinkwater's 5 Novels, or any of his other excellent titles, you already know that. This book, set in the 1950s, is filled with a [... more]
$6.99
Amazon.com |
Lizard Music
I Claudia's: Grace: I remember the night that my grandmother gave me this book. My mom was in the hospital for what would have been her last round of chemo and I had been beaten up in school that day for tucking my pants into my argyle socks in a rather [... more]
$5.50
Amazon.com |
