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Dear Daniel Pinkwater,
I am a big fan of your books. I love all of them and I want to ask, What inspired you to write books? I have read the Hoboken Chicken Emergency,-Classic Borgel,-Hailirous Mush,A Dog From space,- very interesting and Last-so far Fat Men From Space-very silly! :) :):):):):)!!!!!!!!
Sincerely, Joey
What inspired me? Well I had this typewriter, and later a computer. And one just starts typing cause it is fun to see the little letters appear on the paper or the screen, and one thing leads to another.
Dear Daniel Pinkwater,
I am a big fan of your books. I love all of them and I want to ask, What inspired you to write books? I have read the Hoboken Chicken Emergency,-Classic Borgel,-Hailirous Mush,A Dog From space,- very interesting and Last-so far Fat Men From Space-very silly! :) :):):):):)!!!!!!!!
Sincerely, Joey
What inspired me? Well I had this typewriter, and later a computer. And one just starts typing cause it is fun to see the little letters appear on the paper or the screen, and one thing leads to another.
Pinkwater! How do you respond when well-meaning parents tell you that your work is inappropriate? I was recently turned down for a small grant by my school's P.T.O because my artwork is inspiring but inappropriate. Should I feel proud to be rejected by the mainstream? (This is the same school that has five copies of "Lizard Music" on its library shelves which are usually checked-out.)
I usually agree with them.
Dear daniel,
My name is logan soole im like your biggest fan ever.our class did an author study and as soon as i knew you where a choice i really wanted you.You are so funny.Do you mean to be funny in your books?Thanks for taking time out of your day to raed this YOU ROCK!I wish i could get an autograph but that would be to much to ask for.I really hope you send me back because that would be so awesome.I really like your illistratoins also.I really like writing storys but i will never be as good as you.Remember YOU ROCK
from:kidd soole
I will send you an autograph! Send me the thing you want autographed, (no checks please), and a postage-paid self-addressed return envelope. Webmaster Ed will tell you where to send it.
In response to the twist tie thing:
There is no history that is readily available concerning the twist tie. The twist tie is a wire encased in a thin plastic or sometimes paper sleeve. However, many people have seen its competition, the bread clip, which was invented by one Floyd Paxton in the 1950's. The Kwik Lok Corporation manufactured it and still does. They even have directions on how to use the device, which some people collect or turn into works of art. I have used one in leu of a guitar and autoharp pick. Yes sir, our world is a better place, thanks to both twist ties and bread clips!
Another example of fine scholarship contributed to this website.
I took my daughter to a public library in a town a half mile from ours: beautiful interaction between library staff and kids! Story time, 1,000 book club, etc. Our town: Sad affair where we asked the head librarian if they had a children's section: "Indeed," he said without looking up. We found it ourselves. The children's librarian RAN OUT THE EMERGENCY EXIT when we came in. My daughter is not scary and while I'm nerdy, I am not scary looking.
Lesson: The GOOD library stocked a healthy number of your books. This is always the case.
There are more good libraries than bad ones, I am sure.
Do you like pie? It's very nutritious for you. I bet you didn't know that.
DID YOU?
PIE IS THE BEST.
as are llamas.
BYE.
I like all kinds of pie, but not llama pie.
Why, oh why, can there not be a reprinting of The Wuggie Norple Story? The paperback version (yes, the paperback) sells for as much as $100 on ebay or Amazon. The reading public desires to introduce another generation to this fabulous cast of characters.
Why things are out of print, and why not reprinted, and so many things publishers do, these are all mysteries and not for mere mortals to know. I bet you can find a copy on Ebay a lot cheaper than $100.
My 7 year old daughter enjoyed the "Warewolf Club #1 - Magic Pretzel" so much that she howls at the moon & is going to be a Warewolf for Halloween. What should I do???
It's in the book--make sure there is fresh water, a warm place to sleep, a vigorous walk twice a day, and a milk-bone before bed.
Mr.Pinkwater,
Do you dabble in the history of Children's books?
For many many years I have been trying to find a children's book that was special to me when I was a small child. I only remember that it was about a little boy who made companions out of clay and then they came alive and talked to him. It might have been in the Golden Book Series? Sometime around 1953-58? The illustrations were memorable, very soft watercolors. Unfortunately I can not remember the little boys name featured in the story, but it might have been Henry.
I do not dabble, but maybe someone who will see this dabbles. Such a dabbler can chime in if s/he knows anything.
Who invented the bread twist tie, and in which year?
It seems to me that you know the answer, so I won't guess. Tell us.
Dear Pinkwaters,
I hope you make us more Irving and Muktuk books and Larry books. I hope there's more of every single book you give us.
Love,
Zachariah and his whole family
(The above is a letter partially typed and then dictated to me by my 4-year-old son. We have been reading your books to him almost every night for about two years, and he loves them. He also likes to make up his own stories about Irving and Muktuk escaping and getting into some sort of mild trouble, then being rounded up and sent back to the zoo.)
We'd love to do more Irving and Muktuk books. Just waiting for someone to love to publish them.
What do you suggest for food while reading your latest novel?
How many courses of food?
Final question: We don't have a White Castle around here. Are their burgers okay?
I suggest a diet rich in whole grains, fresh vegetables, small amounts of lean meat, fish and poultry, and with no white flour, white rice, potatoes or sugar. White Castle hamburgers are also known, by those who like them, as belly-bombers and sliders. Draw your own conclusions, and don't mistake literary devices for actual preferences.
hi, um me and my class hav a project, reading your books. and i just wanna ask u if your gonna have lke scary, and crude/funny chator books comin out? so just let me no cause im a BIG fan!
from, evan sheeks
It's not for me to say about funny and scary.
Dear Mr. Pinkwater, My family listened to your book, "The Neddiad" on a recent trip from Indiana to Atlanta, GA, and it make the 8 hour drive fly by. Not only was the whole family ( ages 10 to 45) amused and enthralled by the tale we particularly liked having it read by you, with your dry humor and snappy dialog. It may have replaced "The Blue Moose" as our favorite. Please pass on to Jill that I loved "Mr Fred" and I am very glad that there is someone in the universe that likes 6th graders. Best Regards, Gabriel WoonKMWGA
Thank you! I am smiling. I hope you like THE YGGYSSEY, which I just handed in to the publisher. (Won't be out in book, or CD, form for about a year, but keep checking this site for possible sneak previews).
Where are the video clips of a dancing DMP?
Best available now is one of DMP and his dancing, (anyway dancy-walking), dog.
First, I am a big fan. Next, I recorded (probably illegally) your series "The Making of an Artist" from NPR in or around 1987. I have played it for hundreds of my students (probably illegally) around a campfire at 10,100' in the White Mountains of California-Nevada. The problem is that I am missing chapter 6 (of 7). Is there any place on the planet where there is a recording (or even a transcript) of that series. I have tried NPR unsuccessfully. It is a masterpiece! It is essential to my teaching! I need that chapter! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
I think the whole series is in Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle, (or Chicago Fish and Hoboken Whistle..I can never remember), the combination of Fishwhistle, and Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights, available from Xlibris. Maybe you would like to compensate for your illegal recording by sending a copy to Webmaster Ed for possible presentation in a podcast we contemplate on this site. Thanks for your kind words.
I am looking at a crisp copy of the 1966 Bard Student Handbook and also at a yellowed set of Community Council minutes from November, 1964, which contains comments by Bud Hodgkinson about your work on the Handbook. Have you ever written about Bard in the 60's?
You mean written fiction about Bard other than the Student Handbook which was fiction I co-wrote at the end of my freshman year? No. Out of respect for Leon Botstein, I thought I would wait until after he has died.
My 7 year old son and I just visited the public library. He needed to read four books by the end of October. I have read "The Tooth Gnasher Superflash" to my other three boys and decided as a right of passage it was Noah's turn. We sat and giggled through the entire book and nearly got in trouble. Thank you for entertaining all of my boys. I can't wait to read it to my grandchildren.
And I just heard that book is on television sometimes!
Congratulations! Your books have gone into TV reruns! Reading Rainbow has a reading of Tooth Nasher Superflash on PBS, which is presented from time to time--take today, for example. My son loves it. I love it. It would be cooler if you had read the book. But that's a small complaint. Now we need Ken Burns to do a loving treatment of your writing career in twelve episodes, with closeups and slow pans of your letters to your agent.
Typical. From obscurity to reruns. It's been a great career so far.
