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Books with author Daniel Manus Pinkwater

  • 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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  • The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

    Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater

    eBook (, April 14, 2014)
    Arthur Bobowicz is supposed to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, but he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266-pound chicken with laser-beam eyes and a mind of her own who is bent on terrorizing Hoboken, New Jersey. This is a REVISED version of the 1977 original, with illustrations by Jill Pinkwater.
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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 Last Guru

    Daniel Pinkwater

    language (, April 14, 2014)
    One harmless bet on a horse race starts a chain of events that turns a 12-year-old into one of the world's richest people and a spiritual guru.
  • Young Adults

    Daniel Pinkwater

    language (, April 13, 2014)
    Contains the books YOUNG ADULT NOVEL and DEAD END DADA. Says author Daniel Pinkwater of this novel of sociological import: "I honestly don't remember writing this. Are you sure there hasn't been some mistake?"