Terry Cookro
Post #2048 – 20060822
August 22, 2006
Thanks Daniel,
I have already done the things you suggested to me about getting into writing children’s books. Kathleen Roedder was a children’s book critic and she suggested those things to me several years ago also a number of years ago. Now that I have more time, I just have to start submitting query letters. I know it is nearly impossible to break into the field.
Kids books are a favorite of mine and Ive been reading a gazillion of them and enjoy that hobby very much.
For some reason I hadn’t realized I should look at your website for your answer. Better way to get the word out to everyone. Thanks for your ideas.
Loved your “cremation of s. mcgee” reading.
Daniel replies:
Of course, doing things that are ""nearly impossible"" can be a lot of fun.
Darby
Post #2047 – 20060822
August 22, 2006
Dear Daniel Pinkwater,
Did you ever snark out? How old do you have to be to snark out?
From,
Darby
age 8
Daniel replies:
I snarked out, and I was in high school. I hate to have to say this, but the world seemed to be a lot safer years ago when I did my snarking. I would be much more careful about snarking today, and I might do it in a different way.
Annie K.
Post #2045 – 20060820
August 20, 2006
Hi DP!
Do you have any kids? And if so do they like reading and writing?
From your #1 fan,
Annie K.
Daniel replies:
No kids, but two dogs--and they love to read, though their ability to do so is limited.
patsy
Post #2046 – 20060820
August 20, 2006
As an artist, I was very disappointed when I found no examples of Jill Pinkwater’s artwork on this website. Not only are you missing an opportunity to “pretty up” the pages, but you fail to gratify us right-brain folks. I for one am curious about and inspired by the works of all other artists, and I had hoped you would give equal attention to what is old-fashionedly, but correctly, called one’s better half.
Daniel replies:
I thought there were some Jillustrations on this site. But you're right. More would be better. I'll ask her.
Lois Ursillo
Post #2040 – 20060819
August 19, 2006
Hi Daniel
My favorite program is the Saturday Edition with Scott Simon on NPR and I have heard you on the show many, many times. Enjoyed the poem you read today with Scott.
I was born in Chicago and lived on Roscoe Street until I went to college. I graduated from Nettlehorst School and even went back for their 100th anniversary. I just think you went to Nettlehorst, too. Did you ever go back? The school has been remodeled and changed for the best.
LOIS URSILLO
Daniel replies:
You didn't happen to have a brother named Henry, did you?
Barbralu Cohen
Post #2043 – 20060819
August 19, 2006
I was so happy to hear you on NPR this morning reading about Sam McGee…and to hear about this website. I’ve often wanted to let you know that you are important in the life of my family. One of our favorite and most-quoted lines is yours: My house is me and I am it, and it is all my dreams. When our neighbor painted his house four different CLASHING colors, we quoted that to him, and the rest of the neighborhood calmed down!
Thank you. My kids, husband and I send you love & gratitude!
Daniel replies:
Yaaay! Another nice reader! I may not be the best writer, (then again, I may--it's not for me to say), but it is certain I have the best readers of anyone.
Thomas M. Anderson
Post #2044 – 20060819
August 19, 2006
This morning I listened to you and Scott Simon do the cremation of Sam McGee–delightful. I reminded myself again that you are the person who may solve my quest for a children’s book I knew as a child. I cannot remember the title. I was born in 1941. It was available to me in younger years learning to socialized. It was illustrated. It had several characters, all which were associated with message intended. The one I remember the most is “me first”. I believe there were other like “grabby” “nosey”, etc. Can you help with this? I have three grandchildren with whom I want to share this book.
Thanks,
Tom Anderson
Daniel replies:
Nope--not a clue. Maybe some other reader of this site will recognize your book.
Gerry Lynas
Post #2042 – 20060819
August 19, 2006
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
I would like to send you a copy of my new book “The ABCs of Central Park, an Alphabet Guidebook” because I like your work and would appreciate your opinions. You can see a bit about it on the web at www.lynaspress.com.
Thanks.
G. Lynas
Daniel replies:
Have your publisher send it, at their expense, as a review copy. But I can't promise to deliver an opinion--I have a full-time job.
David P. Maroun
Post #2041 – 20060819
August 19, 2006
Re: The reading of “The Cremation of Sam McGee” on NPR Weekend Edition Saturday today.
I remember one question, namely whether there was a moose on a Canadian quarter. I have never seen a moose on any Canadian coin. Canadian quarters often show a caribou, though.
Daniel replies:
Aren't caribou malnourished moose?
Alexander Colby
Post #2039 – 20060817
August 17, 2006
Hi Mr. Pinkwater,
I haven’t read anything by you since I was a little kid. Almost certainly a disservice to both of us, come to think of it; I loved them, ate them up like popcorn, they made me happy. I could use more happy, who couldn’t?
I’m feeling nostalgic, and I miss the writer with whom I so much indentified when I was 9 – 13 years old. Your work was absurd, clever, silly, fun, and yet never really ‘fluff’ – even if the subtance was in stealth mode most of the time, it still got across. It was obvious that you were having fun while you wrote your books. That doesn’t always come across in the sort of stuff I read these days.
I think the last time I read one of your books was in 1983. Just after that year I began my mission to grow up as fast as I could. These days, I wish I’d taken my time.
I’m feeling like I should take something good to read with me on an upcoming trip to the Burning Man Art Festival, where I hope to let go of a lot of mental and emotional junk I’ve been building up over the years. I’d like to get back in touch with the kid I once was, maybe…see how he feels about things. Maybe not find any answers, but possibly discover some new questions.
Will you please make a suggestion or two of books you’ve published since the early 80’s (pretty sure I read everything prior to 83), that I could read over my trip? I’d certainly appreciate it.
I used to be one of your biggest fans, and I’m very glad you’re still writing; just knowing that makes me smile.
Best wishes,
Alex in Astoria
Daniel replies:
Oh, I don't know--try THE ARTSY SMARTSY CLUB.
Mayaj and Tally
Post #2037 – 20060817
August 17, 2006
YAY! It would be so awsome if you guys got up to making it… by the way, Dear Daniel Pinkwater…
Here’s our design www.deviantart.com/deviation/38194788/ with the Hebrew on the back, it literally means ‘nuts of a grape’ heh. It’s pronounced: Eh-go-zei Ana-vim. 🙂
Hope you like!!
Daniel replies:
I leave it to the three of you t-shirt designers and Hebrewists to compare and refine. It's all good.
Eileen Lynch
Post #2036 – 20060817
August 17, 2006
Mr. Pinkwater, I work for the Hoboken Historical Museum and we are preparing an exhibit (as well as a book) on Hoboken in the 1970’s. We are interviewing some of the movers and shakers from that time, and I was wondering if you would be agreeable to an interview (about an hour or so) about what life was like here then? You can e-mail me and let me know if this is something you have the time or inclination toward doing and we will work out the logistics.
Thank you for your consideration,
Eileen
Daniel replies:
I hardly ever move, and shaking would be exhausting. Telephone interview, I presume. OK.
John Burgener
Post #2034 – 20060814
August 14, 2006
So I heard your story on soy-YA-del and that Daniel Pinkwater. I’m just curious to see a photo, I thought that there might be one with the story.
I’m not trying to be mean. I think that this is great. This is sincere. Honest!
By the way, I bought several copies of BATS AT THE BEACH for various friend’s children. I’m 60 by the way.
Daniel replies:
Google images of sfogliatelle, and maybe you'll see a picture of one--or of me!
