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  • The Big Orange Splot

    D. Manus Pinkwater, Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 1993)
    When Mr. Plumbeans' house is splashed with bright orange paint, he decides a multi-colored house would be a nice change. This favorite story of creativity and individuality is back by popular demand.
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  • Wolf Christmas

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater

    Hardcover (Amazon Children's Publishing, Sept. 1, 1998)
    On the longest night of the year, a family of wolves takes a run through the woods to see the unusual sight of a human family’s Christmas celebration.
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  • The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1984)
    Rat leads her two friends, Walter Galt and Winston Bongo, to a late night cafe, where they meet a genuine beatnik poet and witness the first appearance of a werewolf
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  • Young Adults

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    (Tor Books, July 1, 1991)
    A non-conforming group of high school boys decides to transform themselves into an artistic phenomenon, the Wild DaDa Ducks, but they find it difficult to get the recognition they desire, since no one understands what they're doing

  • Ducks!

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1984)
    A young boy encounters a duck who claims to be an angel and leads him on some bizarre and crazy adventures, both in and out of this world
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  • Fat Men From Space

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Paperback (Yearling, July 15, 1980)
    "While William is held captive in a spaceship, alien armies land and wipe out the earth's supply of junk foods. The boy escapes and humans learn to like what the departing scavengers have left: wholegrain bread, milk, greens, all the healthful foods. A wildly comic fantasy with a solid moral."--Publishers Weekly.
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  • The Phantom of the Lunch Wagon

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (Atheneum, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Chris Kevin-Keith fixes up and reopens an abandoned lunch wagon, unaware that it originally closed because it was haunted by a scary phantom.
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  • The Big Orange Splot

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (Paw Prints, Oct. 15, 2008)
    When Mr. Plumbeans' house is splashed with bright orange paint, he decides a multi-colored house would be a nice change. This favorite story of creativity and individuality is back by popular demand. Full color. Reissue.
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  • Aunt Lulu

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (Atheneum, Nov. 1, 1988)
    Tired of working as a librarian in Alaska, Aunt Lulu takes her sled and her fourteen Huskies and moves to Parsippany, New Jersey.
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  • The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

    D. Manus Pinkwater, Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Paperback (Aladdin, Nov. 15, 1977)
    When the butcher at Murphy's Meat Market loses the order for the Bobowicz family's Thanksgiving turkey, young Arthur brings home a chicken weighing two hundred sixty-six pounds which causes a bizarre crisis in Hoboken, New Jersey
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  • Uncle Melvin

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (Atheneum, Oct. 1, 1989)
    Charlie enjoys spending time with his gentle Uncle Melvin, even though Melvin harbors strange delusions about his own power to talk to the birds or control the rain
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  • Once Upon a Blue Moose

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater

    Library Binding (Yearling, March 14, 2006)
    Once upon a blue moose, there was a little restaurant at the edge of the big woods. Mr. Breton was happy running the restaurant. He liked to cook, but he didn’t like it much when winter came and the north wind blew and froze everything solid. Then one day a blue moose, who also didn’t like the cold, came to his door and asked to come in. Mr. Breton said sure, and served the moose some clam chowder. The moose liked the soup, and decided to stay. From that time on, things at the restaurant began to hum.Join the Blue Moose in this hilarious collection of three short novels as he learns to wait tables, writes a novel, goes to Hollywood, solves a mystery, and makes you laugh even in the dark of the cold woods.Includes new wacky but true moose facts!From the Trade Paperback edition.
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