Nathaniel Stephen Rounds

April 11, 2009

Dear Mr. Pinkwater, I hope that I have been forgiven by the various PZONE gurus for submitting some while back under a different alias or two. I recently discovered a place that literally combines more than one plane of existence. This place is call Sugar Mills Botanical Gardens. It is one part 1830 sugar mill ruins, one part 1940’s portland cement dinosaur theme park, and one part present day botanical garden with exotic plants and a 19th century library–and it is free! It also is in a suburb.

Had to share.

Regards,

Nathaniel

Skyler

April 9, 2009

I love all of your books soo much! how do you come up with all those ideas. how come you use mac tavish is a lot of your books?

I was wondering if you can make daniel pinkwater pinback buttons,

because I collect pin back button.

love Skyler

Rebecca Wish Esche

April 5, 2009

Daniel! I already wrote to your buddy, Scott Simon. A few years ago, you and Scott read aloud a wonderfully written and illustrated children’s book by my friend, Mark Karlins: Music Over Manhattan. Well, Mark has a new kids’ book out: Starring Lorenzo, and Einstein too.

I hope you and Scott will enjoy reading this one aloud to your audiences too. It’s such fun!

Thanks,

Rebecca

Yakira

April 3, 2009

I love the Neddiad and the Yggyssey. I think it is very creative how you used Greek poem and story titles and incorporated it into the title off your books. I also love your website and the word from you. Please keep writing because I love to keep reading your stuff. BYE!!

Jeff N

March 31, 2009

My Son (age 10) and I have recently been enjoying your work together. Last night, for some reason, I was moved to do something that I’ve never done before. I wrote a “book review.” Here it is:

Daniel Pinkwater’s novel “The Snarkout Boys and

the Baconsburg Horror” has more bizarre,

strange, and quite frankly disturbing twists of

plot than any work ever written in the English

language. Anyone who considers this to be

appropriate literature for children is

deranged. Or a genius. Or both.

Thanks for making our lives more fun and interesting than they would otherwise be.

Kiera

March 31, 2009

On march 18th (ish) of last year (2008) I asked you about a book and you said that you did not write it but if I figured out who did to let you know. Well, a year later, my sister has found the book! It is called Chicken Trek by Stephen Manes.

Ta Da!

Dave Evans

March 29, 2009

You are mentioned on my favorite blog today www.boingboing.net/2009/03/27/daniel-pinkwaters-ne.html I have spent the morning chasing down the names of the edgy books I read as a young adult, a very exciting and surprisingly emotional experience.

Any idea who the author was in the 1970’s who wrote about coming of age in gritty urban environments? One of his books had a bunch of pills on the cover. Can’t remember it for the life of me.

David Lefever

March 27, 2009

A few years ago, when I finally got to retire to maine, I fell upon Blue Moose. Over the years, my wife and I have read the story and admired the illustrations many times. We’re in our 60s, and have never had the chance to share the book with any child. Our daughter is very pregnant even as I write, so I’ll be on ebay looking for another copy of Blue Moose to take to read to the newest family member. Can’t bear to part with ours. Did you ever actually spend any time in Downeast or Northern Maine? You captured the joys (nyuk, nyuk) of Maine winters so well. Thanks for all the joy from such a small book!

Joshua

March 23, 2009

I went to barnes and noble a couple of days ago, and I saw a little

book called…

THE YGGYSEY!

I knew I had to get it, and I loved it! It was undoubtedly stranger

than the first, but that’s why I liked it. I really liked Iggy’s point

of view, though I was the very person that asked why you wanted to

write with her point of view! The only thing I didn’t like was the

ending, because I keep thinking that it would go the way of Crocodile

Dundee. I loved the movie, but still, unless you add your Manus touch,

it would be a little too much like that movie! Anyways, I have a few

questions about the book, first about the publishing: Why did you

decide to publish the book chapter by chapter online first before

publishing it? And why did you decide to publish it while it was still

going online? Now, for a question about the book: WHERE Do you get

these ideas? I mean, I have written some stories myself, but they do

not have as much awesome stories, and as great characters as yours!

Another question: Do you have any realistic fiction books you’ve

written? I really think (if you don’t already have them) that you

would do great as a realistic fiction writer, in addition to fantasy.

Oh great, this message is getting longer than your book! Well, at

least it looks like it on the iPod screen!

I hope to hear from you soon,

Joshua

Henrietta the Chicken

March 22, 2009

I named my chicken after Henrietta the chicken! She and her sisters live in my yard. They lay lots of eggs. Muahahaha!

alex and toni farkas

March 19, 2009

We were just wondering if you still walk your dogs at the Vanderbilt Estate. Mostly we like to meet dogs, but you do sound very friendly and we’d like to know if we might like to bump into you some day. We could probably recognize you from the pictures on the web. Do you talk to any of your dogs in Yiddish?

Donald Waits

March 18, 2009

I haven’t the slightest reason to believe someone as important as Daniel Manus Pinkwater will respond to this e-mail, but, being a retired old geezer, I have nothing better to do. The last time I tried to make nice was about 15 years ago. My letter was returned with the usual corrections by DP hisself. I gave the letter to Coleen Sally, a revered ex-instructor of Children’s Literature at University of New Orleans (since passed away). For some unknown reason, Ms. Salley worshiped DP and was most impressed to find that I had once been a neighbor of said P. I suspect that DP and his lovely wife, Jill, are still hiding out, like Bonny and Clyde, in the woods somewhere.

Debbie Duncan

March 17, 2009

Daniel, please use the Twitter account that lit so kindly made for you. I’d love to read your tweets!

Cris Riedel

March 11, 2009

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

This letter is a request for your permission to perform Bear’s Picture this summer. I am a storyteller who has received three grants from the New York State Arts Council Decentalization Program/Genesee Valley Council on the Arts. The grants have funded my creation and performance of programs that coordinate with the reading theme of the summer chosen by Collaborative Summer Library Programs. The Summer 2009 theme is “Get Creative at Your Library!” and my program is called Artsy Tales.

When he was young, my son and I read your marvelous story multitudinous times. The conclusion is one with which I would like to close my program.

The programs attract approximately 300 people during 8 performances. Since this is your authored story, I would perform it faithfully and totally as written.

Thank you very much for your help, and for your wonderful addition to literature both children’s and grown-up (although good lit is good lit, no matter for whom).

Victoria

March 8, 2009

Love everything PINKWATER.

Love the npr when you read/review books. Love your sensibilities, your delight and savoring of writing and illustration and child-like innocence.

Hope you can take the time to help here with info. Short and sweet.

Have a friend who has written a beautiful children’s book, timely, as a mom it is one I would buy and want to read. Would be of interest in many sectors.

What is best source for learning about self-publishing. General price to do that? range?

Should one have a children’s book consultant? and where is one found – outside publishing companies?

Thanks and Grateful for you time and willingness to assist with your knowledge.

(signed)

An artist’s friend and who believes in Pinkwater.