New books

Coming soon, from Tachyon Publications.

From the publisher: “Mick is a good kid, but maybe he can use just a little guidance. But it’s unclear who will be guiding whom, because Mick’s brother came home from Tibet with the self-proclaimed Guru Lumpo Smythe-Finkel and his dog Lhasa―and then promptly settled both of them in Mick’s bedroom.

(The thing about this kind of guru is that he doesn’t seem to know exactly what he’s trying to do. He sure does seem to be hungry, though.)

Anyway, Mick agrees to something like a quest, roaming the suburbs with the oddest group of misfits: Lumpo and Lhasa; graffiti-fanatic Verne; and Verne’s unusual friend Molly. Molly is a Dwergish girl―don’t worry if you don’t know what that is yet―and she seems to be going off the rails a bit. But she knows that she is definitely not Verne’s girlfriend.

Along the way, the gang will get invited to a rollicking ghost party, consult a very strange little king, and actually discover the truth about Heaven. Or a version of the truth anyway, because in a Daniel Pinkwater tale, the truth is never the slightest bit like what you’re expecting.”

Forthcoming from Tachyon Books in April 2022!

Don’t forget to check out this new picture book, now available at fine book retailers!

Now available! More info from the publisher, Tachyon Publications.

Coming soon!

Coming soon! (August 2020)

Some of your favourite classic Pinkwater tales are being reborn this fall in new editions. The New York Review of Books is issuing a new paperback reprint of Lizard Music, and Dover Publications will be publishing “Four Hoboken Stories” in September. The latter includes “The Magic Moscow,” “Attila the Pun,” “Jolly Roger, a Dog of Hoboken,” and “Looking for Bobowicz.”

Coming in August!

Coming in September!

A new, delightful collaboration between Daniel and illustrator Will Hillenbrand. Published by Candlewick Press and on shelves this December!

Here’s the trailer, and also a nice review of the book.

From Jennifer Laughran:

Out today – the hilarious third installment of MRS NOODLEKUGEL’s adventures for young readers, by DP with art by Adam Stower, and featuring nearsighted mice, a cat butler, and a large and ridiculous bear… among other things.

Read more about it here.