Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Calef Brown. Houghton Mifflin, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-547-38539-6
One hot summer in Chicago, 17-year-old Harold Knishke heads out for his regular flute lesson and winds up on a meandering, never-dull journey of self-discovery. Knishke isn't sure what he wants out of life, but after his flute teacher insists it...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15 (170p) ISBN 978-0-02-774671-6
Old Uncle Borgel, who has lived with the family ever since Melvin can remember, decides to leave one night and invites the boy to come along. Off they go in Borgel's 1937 Dorbzeldgestet sedan for a trip through time-space-and-the-other. First stop:...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $14 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-04274-5
From Pinkwater we expect the pure wackiness of a mind given to bizarre bolts of imagination. Absurdities and a few gaps in logic aside, we get it in spades. Someone is stealing all the muffins in Europe; French Inspector Le Chat looks to a champion...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-774661-7
Aunt Lulu's nephew tells a fun-to-read-aloud tale of his big, strong librarian aunt who once lived in Alaska, where she'd harness up her 14 huskies, yell, ``Mush Melvin, Louise, Phoebe, Willie, Norman, Hortense, Bruce, Susie, Charles, Teddie, Neddie,
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-774642-6
The banner that erroneously heralds visiting celebrity Bramwell Wink-Porter as author of The Fuzzy Bunny typifies the mishaps at Melvinville Elementary School, the setting for Pinkwater's latest droll excursion. (The principal entreats her guest to...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-689-71620-1
Pinkwater's typical zaniness permeates this tale of an eccentric uncle who takes his nephew on a jaunt to outer space--and beyond. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $17.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-201-52359-1
With gently self-deprecating humor, Pinkwater depicts himself as a fledgling Chicago sculptor and a self-proclaimed expert on Zen Buddhism in the '60s, then a ``demon painter'' in Hoboken, N.J., living in a loft painted entirely pink and making...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-57000-7
Pinkwater ruminates on his Polish immigrant parents, fat people who can't lose weight, his wife Jill, their dogs and good friends in this collection of ``commentaries, un-commentaries and vulgar excesses'' from his National Public Radio talks. PW...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $8.98 (232p) ISBN 978-0-201-51789-7
Leaving his native California to settle in New York's Hudson River Valley, Pinkwater recently began broadcasting on National Public Radio, after a career writing and illustrating outstanding books for children. This is a collection of his ``commentar
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Adam Stower. Candlewick, $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5054-4
If Pinkwater’s first Mrs. Noodlekugel book didn’t persuade readers, the second one will: it’s Mrs. Noodlekugel’s matter-of-factly loopy world—we just live in it. Even her babysitting charges, Nick and Maxine, now show little surprise at how life...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Adam Stower. Candlewick, $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5053-7
Not long after siblings Nick and Maxine move into a new high-rise home, they discover that right behind their building, surrounded by skyscrapers, is a tiny, incongruously idyllic cottage. With help from Mike the janitor (who “sat in a little room...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Aaron Renier. Abrams, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5194-3
This loopy tale from previous collaborators Pinkwater and Renier (Adventures of a Dwergish Girl) is predicated on the factoid that “90 percent of body heat is lost through the top of the head.” To remedy the situation, a yellow-haired, pink-skinned...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Aaron Renier. Abrams, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4681-9
Welcome to Blinsh, in the nation of Pinksylvania. It’s a village where 51% of the population are vampires, “and every family has a least one.” People get bitten on a regular basis—such as the Pinkwater double and nominal protagonist Mr. Papooshnik—bu
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Daniel Pinkwater. Tachyon, $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-61696-336-1
Teen Molly O’Malley is a Dwerg who lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Like all Dwerg families, Molly’s has extraordinary wealth from mining gold. As a female Dwerg, Molly is expected to tend goats and vegetables and marry a “slob male Dwerg,”...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Calef Brown, Houghton Mifflin, $16 (282p) ISBN 978-0-547-22324-7
The best thing about Pinkwater is his untamed imagination, and like those in this book's predecessors, The Neddiad and The Yggyssey, his loveable, absurd characters feel like they've been drawn straight from the minds of elementary-school children....
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Calef Brown, Illustrator . Houghton Mifflin $16 (245p) ISBN 978-0-618-59445-0
Like The Neddiad
, this sequel packs wacky characters, absurd plot twists and improbable outcomes—and every page offers goofy, offbeat fun. The starring role this time belongs to the previously met Iggy Birnbaum, who proves a more level-headed
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Calef Brown, Illustrator . Houghton $16 (307p) ISBN 978-0-618-59444-3
In Pinkwater's (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
) wonderfully silly book set in the late 1940s, young Neddie Wentworthstein mentions to his father that he wants to eat in the famous restaurant shaped like a hat. Never mind that the Brown Derby is...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jack E. Davis, Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-055505-4
Pinkwater (Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken) and Davis give readers absurdity aplenty in this story about a boy, Jacob, and his dog, Max, who agree to change places. "When we woke up.... I stretched. I yawned. I scratched behind my ear—all the...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jack E. Davis, Illustrator , illus. by Jack E. Davis. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623785-5
Pinkwater (Fat Camp Commandos) gives The Picture of Dorian Gray
an idiosyncratic twist as friends Morty and Ray watch a horror movie about "a really evil guy" whose portrait grows ugly as he does mean things to people. Davis's...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jack E. Davis, Illustrator , illus. by Jack E. Davis. HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-055502-3
Third grade is going to be ugly,” moans the anonymous narrator of this caper, a sort of self-esteem parable souped up on comedy. “Cinnamon-Red-Hots-candy-sucking” Richard Newton, who has already twisted his arm, snags the seat...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-25208-4
Bad Bears in the Big City: An Irving and Muktuk Story by Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jill Pinkwater, finds the muffin-thieving polar bears sent in shackles from their home in Yellowtooth to the Bayonne, N.J., zoo. A note from Yellowtooth's...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jill Pinkwater. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-62134-6
Yetta, the Pinkwaters’ inimitable Yiddish-speaking, Brooklyn-dwelling chicken, is back in her second picture book, this time playing figurative mother hen and adoption agency for a stray kitten that she finds lost in a snowdrift. Yetta’s Spanish-spea
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator , illus. by Jill Pinkwater. Houghton $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-35404-7
In this follow-up to their Larry picture books (the polar bear with a hankering for blueberry muffins), the Pinkwaters showcase the town of Yellowtooth as it celebrates the New Year with a Blueberry Muffin Festival—starring the shifty-eyed...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-053554-4
Daniel Pinkwater hatches Looking for Bobowicz, illus. by Jill Pinkwater, in which a giant chicken is once again wreaking havoc in Hoboken. Nick and his friends uncover news articles about Henrietta, a giant chicken that rampaged through the town...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5004-7
These two wry tales introduce a polar bear who's equally at home in the Arctic's Baffin Bay, at the Jersey shore and in a supercooled hotel pool. In Young Larry the cub's life changes dramatically when an ice floe takes him to Bayonne, N.J., where...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-09334-2
Following up on their Larry books, in which the Pinkwaters chronicled a polar bear's hankering for blueberry muffins, Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears by Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jill Pinkwater, showcases the town of Yellowtooth as it ...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator . Simon & Schuster $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-85632-2
Pinkwater, author of children's books (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency; Lizard Music) and a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, delivers a witty rumination on his experiences with dogs. Uncle Boris, one of the many colorful and...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Jill Pinkwater, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81143-2
At first, this tale offers nothing but dismal weather and a polite couple, Mr. and Mrs. Submarine, breakfasting on corn muffins. Their cat bumps at the window and comes in from the rain, and their dog follows suit. Peculiarities arise when Mr. and...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jill Pinkwater, Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0312-55824-6
Comely and organic, Yetta the chicken seems destined for a Jewish family's Sabbath table. But Yetta is also brave and clever, and when the opportunity for escape comes her way, she grabs it. "She will not be soup. She will not be roasted chicken on...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, D. B. Johnson, Illustrator , illus. by D.B. Johnson. Houghton $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-75923-1
Imaginative illustrations from a notable ursine stylist, Johnson (Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
), lend pizzazz to this reillustrated 1972 bear-centric tale from Pinkwater, author of the Larry polar bear series. Bear, depicted in speckled charcoal with a
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Will Hillenbrand. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4569-4
Pinkwater’s (Beautiful Yetta) impulsive, happy-go-lucky bear keeps finding carrots on a flat rock outside his cave, left by some anonymous well-wisher. After days of this, the bear places honeycomb on the rock as a lure (“He wanted to see who had...
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Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Will Hillenbrand. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7153-2
Bear and the rabbit he met in Bear in Love (2012) are now the best of friends, exploring the woods together and apart. "You see, the bear is sure the bunny is a very small bear," Pinkwater writes. "The bunny is sure the bear is a very large bunny....
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $3.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-71413-9
The nephew of an irrepressible librarian aunt tells of her days in Alaska, where she would harness her 14 huskies and deliver books to the miners; PW termed this droll tale ``worthy of many re-readings.'' Ages 5-8. (Mar.)
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Andy Rash, Illustrator , illus. by Andy Rash. Scholastic/Little Apple $4.50 (89p) ISBN 978-0-439-29773-8
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula flee Deepdip Cha-Cha's Fun Ashram for Kids. After teaming up with best friend Mavis on a nearby dude ranch, the trio attempts to reunite the feuding town of Horny Toad. "Rash's comic illustrations complement the
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Andy Rash, Illustrator, Andy Rash, Author , illus. by Andy Rash. Scholastic $4.50 (88p) ISBN 978-0-439-15528-1
To protest their enrollment at a weight-loss camp, three children become pro-pudge activists. "This unpredictable tale of vengeance shrewdly satirizes body-consciousness," said PW. Ages 7-10. (May)
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Andy Rash, Illustrator, Andy Rash, Author Scholastic $14.95 (89p) ISBN 978-0-439-29772-1
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula flee Deepdip Cha-Cha's Fun Ashram for Kids in Fat Camp Commandos Go West by Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Andy Rash. After teaming up with best friend Mavis on a nearby dude ranch, the trio attempts to reunite the feuding...
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Author, Andy Rash, Illustrator, Andy Rash, Author , illus. by Andy Rash. Scholastic $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-439-15527-4
To protest their enrollment at a weight-loss camp, three children become pro-pudge activists, "terrorizing ordinary citizens to awaken them from their fat-prejudice." Narrator Ralph Nebula and his sister, Sylvia, hate squalid Camp Noo Yoo,...
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