Books with author Daniel M. Pinkwater

Combine a crime, a criminal, a fat man in a fez, and a guy named "Chicken Man", and you get a zany sci-fi adventure that defies gravity to bring you a mind-boggling feast. As Wizard of Comedy Daniel M. Pinkwater transports the Snarkout Boys and the Rat through the tunnel under North Aufzoo Street to the warmth of Beanbenders, you'll meet some strange characters and learn much about the versatile avocado. The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death is a sci-fi mystery adventure that seems like a dream...but no one is sleeping!

Great questions have always been raised by literature. MOBY DICK asks, "Doesn't anyone ever get seasick?" THE ODYSSEY asks, "Doesn't anyone ever get seasick?" THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE BACONBURG HORROR asks: "Why doesn't everyone get food poisoning? How do they survive so many greasy snacks? Why are werewolves like that? Doesn't a great detective have anything better to do?"Here you will not find the answers to these questions and many, many others. Provocative to some, stimulating to others, boring to jaded sophisticates, this is a book that must be read--although it can also be thrown with great effect. Apparently a mystery about lycanthropy, a master criminal, a great detective, and various other creatures of the night, THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE BACONBURG HORROR can be read on at least fourteen other levels. This is a rare achievement. ALICE IN WONDERLAND itself can only be read on nine different levels. Only the genius of someone like Pinkwater, or of Pinkwater, could create such a masterpiece of virtually undetectable complexity.

“What Pinkwater does is magic, and I’m grateful for it.” —Neil Gaiman (about The Neddiad) Is Bushman the gorilla alive? According to the papers, he died a long time ago. Why is he so important to the high school senior and aspiring Great Artist Harold Knishke? It’s a hot summer in 1960s Chicago, and people are on the streets late at night, including the Chicken Man and Molly the dwerg. While reading this hilarious young adult novel (with illustrations by Calef Brown!) teens will ask themselves, “Why am I reading this?” and “Is Harold about to embark on a voyage of great adventure?” He is. This ebook includes a sample chapter of ADVENTURES OF A CAT-WHISKERED GIRL.

Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater's story of how Neddie, a shaman, a ghost, three pals, and a maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.Melvin the Shaman. Sandor Eucalyptus. Billy the Phantom Bellboy. Daniel Pinkwater's weird and wonderful tale of Neddie Wentworthstein's quest to save civilization features some of the most unique heroes and villains a reader could hope to meet. Despite the heavy responsibility that Neddie must carry (not every kid is charged with rescuing humankind from doom), his story is hilarious, warm, welcoming, and sweet.

There's a crime. There's a master criminal. There's a fat man in a fez. Fans of LIZARD MUSIC, take note: Chicken Man is here, and his chicken dances while Daniel Pinkwater defies gravity to bring you a mind-boggling feast. As the Wizard of Comedy transports the Snarkout Boys and Rat through the tunnel under North Aufzoo Street to the warmth of Beanbenders and into a sci-fi mystery adventure that is like a dream (but no one is sleeping), you will meet some strange characters, and learn much about the versatile avocado.

By the author of The Big Orange Splot, The Neddiad, and Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered GirlThings Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he’s been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat). The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who’ve begun appearing on Victor’s television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From “other space”? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards’ floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own.