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Daniel, my friend Matt and I stopped by to visit you and your wife at Oblong Books today. (We're the ones who gave you the Benjamin Franklin stein.) I purchased a copy of "Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken" and brought it home for my little girls. Ella, my 5 year-old, made me read it to her three times before bed. When I asked if she liked the story or the pictures better, she answered, "Both of them." Score two points for Pinkwater & Pinkwater.
What readers we have! It was nice to meet you and see Matt again.
ICH BIN YETE
MEIN YIDISHE NOMEN IZ YENTE
FUN MEIN BOBE....
I was just sent a copy of your Beatiful Yetta and loved reading the Yiddish, Spanish and English to my husband. I covered up the transliteration to see of I could read the Yiddish without looking at the transliteration.
Did you know that there were Yiddish chicken farmers in Petaluma California? I bet their chickens spoken a zayer guten Yiddish.
I'll be sharing this book with teachers and kids and family members far and wide. I may even have the opportunity to read it at the United Kingdom Literacy Conference in July and I'll be sharing it with teachers at Hofstra University in June....
There are a few other books with Yetta in the title. I don't know many Yetta's any more. My grandmother's name was Anglisized to Yetta from Yenta. My family called me Yenta Tilabenda for most of my growing up years.
Thanks for this opportunity. All the best. Keep writing for children and others. Un zei gezuntT
Yetta Goodman
A SHAYNEM DANK! There's something about that book! It appears to make people happy. It can't be the story--there hardly is one--but when Jill undertook to do the drawings she asked the editor, and she asked me, "How do you think I should draw Yetta?" We both said the same thing, "Make her beautiful and lovable." Or maybe it's the name. Do people smile when they see you?
I was very excited to see that Daniel and Jill are doing a signing in June, not very far (Rhinebeck) from where I live (Western Mass.). Unfortunately, it is a day that my partner (who loves loves loves the works of Pinkwater) has a commitment elsewhere. Will you be doing other signings in the near future?
No. We don't often do signings. I forget why.
Many years back DP did a radio essay on Golf and how it was started by Scottish "Village Idiots".
Where might I find this audio?
No idea--especially since I did not write it. I have only played one game of golf in my life, and had no way of knowing if the idiots were Scottish or not.
I don't want to talk about DP's writing skills or my lack of them. I have followed over the years Mr. P's escapades involved in automobile purchases. Since I am 6'5" and in the over 275 class (and 67) I want to know what he is presnetly buying for a car. I remeber his BMW with the food restrictions in the manual but what about today is there a reasonably priced vehicle for our size. Simply put what are you driving?
I am driving an 11-year-old Mercedes-Benz station wagon which I had to have because two large dogs who had to ride separately because otherwise wrestling and bouncing off the ceiling. But my all-time favorite large-_person_ car is the VW New Beetle. (See http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/Pinkwater-Car/)
I've just published a brief review of "Yobgorgle" at www.associatedcontent.com. Please feel free to read it at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/3010528/book_review_yobgorgle.html?cat=38.
Comments are welcome, and goofiness is encouraged!
I read your review, didn't see where to post a comment, so I will comment here. I take exception to the repeated use of the term, "nonsense." When I wrote that book, I wasn't a good enough writer to do nonsense. Also the review makes repeated mention of the absence of sex and female characters, also the male characters' lack of emotional response to one another. An editor of adult books once pitched the idea that I should write one. She said, "The difference between a children's novel and an adult novel is the adult novel is about human relations and sex." I said, "Shoot! The two things I don't understand anything about!"
theres this girl who keeps bothering me. what do i do?
Often effective is disguising oneself with leaves, as a bush or shrub.
I have been watching the Garfield Show (as in Garfield the Cat) and it sure sounded like you voicing Garfield. I was shocked to discover that it's actually a guy named Frank Welker. Now I want to know, are you him, or he you, or did you know that if he can't do the voice, you'd make a great stand-in?
I must catch the Garfield show. Your post suggests they employ fine actors.
Just thought you should know -- the official anthem for the World Cup is called "Waka Waka".
Thank you.
Daniel Pinkwater; I've been reading all you're books ever sense I was really small,the thinnerbooks like;Wempires,Devil in the drain,Uncle Melvin and Doodle flute. Now I have just finished 4 fantastic novels. i am now on page 162 of the Neddiad and have just met Yggrassel (is that how you spell it?) YoUR bOoKS ArE SOo coOL!! from Caius Sztuk
What can I say? When you're right, you're right.
Dear Mr Pinkwater, I recently purchased a Kindle and was sad to see that the only book available by you in the Kindle format is Once Upon a Blue Moose. Will you be releasing any other books for the Kindle? I'd love to purchase them!
On another note, I fell in love with Lizard Music and Alan Mendelsohn when I was in middle school. I checked out the original 76/79 publications so many times that I formed a very strong tactile association with those books. So when I decided to buy them, I searched rare book dealers and found the exact binding/editions that I used to read. I am happy to say that I took these with me when I went into the Peace Corps and I brought them with me to Korea.
Now if I could only get them in electronic form legally I would be a very very happy woman.
Julia
I do not care about Kindle one way or the other, and I didn't know that even one book of mine is available on it, possibly legally. If you want my books electronically, many of them can be had here on this website in audio form, (free!), and current, to-be-published, books have been serialized here for several years. If you want a facsimile of the original Lizard Music, it will be published next year by New York Review Children's Book Collection--inclusion in which I regard as the highest possible honor.
This made the Front Page of the local paper today. Well, only a small mention of it made the front page, but there is a big picture on the first page of the B section.
A WHOLE FAMILY of Giant Palouse Earthworms, rumored to be as much as three feet long, has been found. Unfortunately they will likely be renamed the "larger-than-average Palouse Earthworm" in the near future, as they seem to be about ten inches long in adulthood. The are the beautiful shell pink color. It is unknown if they have a lily smell as described, but they do not spit. They are said to be very gentle.
I thought you would have to be updated on this important breakthrough in Giant worm taxonomy.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011716503_earthworm28m.html
But can they play chess?
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
I read many of your books as a child and it is safe to say they gave me some of my current ridiculous outlook on life. However as an adult I have gotten into so-called New Age, alternative and occult books. Interestingly enough they actually seem to tie into your writing! Things like lizards, pod people, 'astral travel' (mentioned by Klugarsh), and even the idea of reincarnation. So my question for you is how much were you influenced by the whole New Age thing, and how has it affected you? Because even 15 years ago I knew your stories were a special kind of rediculous!
Well, I came of age in the 60s--there was plenty of it about.
I just went through an online Go Green traing from company Deutsche Post DHL and the narrator sounded suspiciously like you, Mr. Pinkwater - have you been moonlighting as the voice of corporate training videos? If so, it makes it all the more bareable - if not, there is someone who sounds like you grabbing up what are probably good paying voice over jobs that could be yours.
I only narrate the German training videos, and for those I do my Peter Lorre voice.
Daniel, I have been showing my students the movie Fat. It has hopefully taught them something, I hope! I would like the opportunity to discuss some work and issues about overweight kids in Physical Education class. I have been teaching health and PE for 11 years. I feel there is a need to enlighten people about the struggles that many kids have in this area. I hope to hear from you soon.
Brian Fox
What movie, Fat, are you talking about? Am I supposed to know about it? All I have to say about issues of "overweight" is it is a trivial matter, and doesn't bear thinking about. This is not to say that people ought not to eat a healthy diet and take part in appropriate exercise--but since statistically, there is practically no chance for people currently fat to become not-fat, and almost all of the medical "advances" offering weight-loss so far have done harm and none have done any good, there doesn't seem to me to be any point worrying about it. People of any size or shape can benefit from avoiding things like sugar, white flour and fat in their diet, eating plenty of fresh veggies, and moving their bodies around--and if one does these things one will be happier, smarter, and good-looking. If I taught health and PE, I would teach the kids to make great salads and vegetable soups, and get them to hate bottled soft drinks. I would also give credit for things like strolling, walking, and ping-pong.
Hello Mr.Pinkwater may you please buy me a PSP because I think my friend Evan Cordnes is lieing to me.ps:do you like nachoes because i do.pss:I am about to have a baby sister
I like nachos, but not because you do. I liked them before I knew you did. Of course, now that I know you do, I feel even more that I was correct in liking them in the first place. A nacho is a small sheepdog that comes from Portugal, right?
hello this is mt first time talking to someone who writes a book I have something to ask you please honest I had read something about you that you had this website and people could talk to you. do you think this is safe for kids like how could they know if this was just some ramdom guy but then I dont know, well anyways how long have you been writing books? ive never really have read one of your books and i cant find them and sorry i could not give out my name its kind of for my own safey you understand I would if this was only me and you talking but anyways how old are you whats your faviort book you have writen? sorry I dont sell so well im only in fourth grade going on to 5 please reple your #1 fan
You think I'm the author who did Harry Potter, don't you?
Dearest Daniel Pinkwater,
My children and I listened over and over again to your cassette recordings of dog stories, hot chilies in Africa, the way your guide could tell a "daft" joke, the pet psychic, becoming a painter/writer by watching a tree. I cannot find those recordings on CD; I miss them. Please, Please, Please release those precious stories on CD or add them to your archive (have I missed them?...although CDs are best - you do deserve compensation). Your devoted, Jeannine Moran
You seem to think it is I, the author/reader-aloud, who releases things on CDs. It is not so. There are publishers. Publishers are commercial enterprises, and (shudder) corporations. Try to get one of those to do something useful or appropriate. However....I have good news for you. If you would care to review the archived podcasts on this very website, many of the pieces you mention are there. You can put them on your very own CD, with my blessing.
dear mr Pinkwater,
you should listen to this amazing song about the chicken man! it's by a band of conjoined twin sisters called evelyn Evelyn. for obvious reasons, i think you'll like it a lot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seL08LQIntQ
sam
I had to get up and dance.
Dear Mr. Pinkwater.
Just got done listening to the podcast of you and Mr. Simon reading the "Bear Who Wasn't".
Then, I was reminded of the book that I just finished reading to my wife: "Freddy Goes Camping" by Walter R. Brooks. I discovered Freddy just a couple of years ago and am enthralled. I know that you and Mr. Simon only do kids' picture books (which we also enjoy), but would you ever bring Freddy back to the attention of the world? He's worth it, in my opinion.
Also, belated condolences on Lulu. We just lost our cat of the same number of years and your recollections of Lulu brought a misty smile to my face.
Thanks for everything you do!
What I do is just dive into the 2,000 or so books that come in the form of review copies, and search for something of quality that might fit the requirements of the radio program. Should Freddy turn up he would get a look, same as the others. Lulu's successor, Kee, is doing her best to live up to the tradition. I hope you got another cat.
