Kevin

January 28, 2008

Hi!

I am looking for book recommendations for a 2nd grader (almost 8) who loves science fiction and isn’t quite up to reading Harry Potter and similar level books yet. Blue Moose seems to be just about exactly the right level of challenge (not to mention the fact that my smiling muscles get a very aerobic workout every time I read it).

My first thought, of course, was _The Muffin Fiend_. What other of your books could tickle his science fiction tastes?

Thank you absurdly much–for this advice and for all that you write!

Kevin

Alexandra

January 26, 2008

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I grew up on your books. I have a weird literary crush on two people– you, and Susan Sontag, and you have the extra advantage of being alive. I once thought you invented Dada. Now I’m twenty-one, and even though I am allergic to beer, I need to go to a beergarden. Suggestions? I really, really want one surrounded by defunct train cars.

thank you,

Alex

Lukas

January 21, 2008

Dear Daniel Pinkwater I love your stories

and I read so many of them. My favorite one is

second grade ape.

K.C. Poulos

January 7, 2008

Hi Mr. Pinkwater! I wrote last August telling you that our Mother-Daughter book club had picked “The Neddiad” for our January meeting. Well, we (about 20 of us) read it and loved it! Other family members would overhear us reading it out loud and come in to listen and then wanted to read it themselves. Our favorite line was “The The Tar Tar Pits”!

The girls (7 and 8-year-olds) had some questions: Did you have a nickname when you were little? Where did you get the idea of Eloise – did you have a sister like that? How did you think up all those funny names and where did you get the idea of the book? Finally, we’re just curious if anyone has bought the rights to the book because it would make a wonderful movie. We think Jim Carey would make an excellent Billy.

Thanks again for an excellent read and we look forward to discovering more of your books.

K.C. Poulos and the Oak Park Mother-Daughter Book Club

Matt Arnold

January 4, 2008

I must say Mr. Pinkwater that I have only read one of your books, but that the one I read,Young Adults, is out standing. In fact it is so good that it has been drifting around our town, passed hand to hand, for months now. Is there any possibility that we shall ever here from the Wild Dada Ducks again?

Shana

December 27, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I am a 28-year-old social worker who has to deal with all sorts of complicated human problems every day at work. One of my most trusted ways to relax in the evening is to pick up one of your books, open to a random page, and read from there. It’s interesting that I find your books so soothing when they are about such exciting and absurd topics. But I can honestly say that The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death puts me in a deep meditative state!

Mr. Pinkwater, your books tap into something very powerful: It’s the comfort of repetition (obscure movies, hot foods, old cars), the value of unlikely friendships, and the quest to find one’s own meaning in life.

Incidentally, I spent half my childhood in the rumble seat of a 1936 Packard. What a car.

Shana

Christy Sexton

December 26, 2007

Thank you for writing The Neddiad–it was one of the first children’s books to captivate me in a long time. I do have a question: How did you become a children’s book reviewer? I think that would be the best job in the world.

Quinne C.L.

December 24, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I don’t know exactly how to start this off, but the simplest way to try is to thank you for bringing Borgel into existence. My father and I used to listen to it every time we went on a road trip, and let me tell you, it makes for a wonderful childhood memory.

It’s a great book…it’s so much fun to imagine, and as a result, never gets old. It’s beautiful, in the strangest way possible. Like if the Great Popsicle was a book.

Much love, in a detached and hopefully not creepy way,

Quinne

Quinn Murphy

December 21, 2007

dear mr. Pinkwater, my brother and I have had a band for a couple years now with ever fluctuating band-names. We have always been drawn back, though, to “the snarkout boys” inspired by two of the greatest novels of all time. The thing is mr. Pinkwater,we were just wondering if you would sue us if we took this band name. please know that it is only out of the love of these books and an appreciation of your work that we would choose this name.

Merry Christmas

Gavin.O

December 20, 2007

Hi, I am one of your biggest fans. I thought about googling “Daniel Pinkwater” to see if I could find a site about you, and here you are. I like the Werewolf Club books, but I’ve only read the first two. Bye!

Dan Mills

December 19, 2007

Hello,

I taped you reading Jolly Roger on public radio a while back. I would really like to buy a high quality copy of that reading. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Dan

ruben mclaughlin

December 19, 2007

Hello.Mr.Pinkwater. My friend Joey(a major fan of yours) gave me a copy of Lizard Music,and i was hooked.He recently got a tattoo with your likeness, i was wondering if youve gotten alot of that? I would like to send you a picture of it,and if you could please sign our books. If you dont want to help me thats fine, but ,do it for him. THink of all the pain you have caused him, tattoo guns don’t feel like cotton candy you know. We have also written a song about lizard music and would like to send you a copy. The song will either make you laugh or you can use it, amplified,to chase squirrels or vacuum salesmen off of your property. Thank you and enjoy the buffet.

Ruben Mclaughlin

Lea Blander

December 16, 2007

Dear Daniel Pinkwater,

I love your stories. I’ve read 12 of them so far in December because my class theme is Author Studies. And you’re our author.

I like the book that you wrote, The Big Orange Splot. After my class read it, we made our own dream homes. I bet they looked like some other home that you wouldn’t find usually.

I hope I get to see you one day.

Love, Lea

Summers-Knoll School

Miss Elaine Neeland’s K-1 class

Elizabeth Lear

December 16, 2007

It may just be that I’m easily confused or that there’s some sort of parallel universe thing going on at the Bayone, NJ, zoo, but I have a question about polar bears:

Why is it that in the Larry books the polar bears at the zoo are Roy (Larry’s brother), Bear Number 1, and Bear Number 3, while from Irving and Muktuk’s point of view, they and Larry’s brother Roy are the three bears in residence?

Thanks for your help on this …

Salom

December 14, 2007

Hello Mr. Pinkwater–

I happened upon The Education of Robert Nifkin today in the library and read it with much delight, having not thought about your books since 9th grade or so (I know: I am a terrible person). I remember happening upon Young Adult Novel when I was in 6th grade and loving it, and reading all the other Pinkwater books the school (and public) library had. Thanks for writing such great books.

P.S. Is the Kevin Shapiro mentioned in The Education of Robert Nifkin THE Kevin Shapiro? I don’t think it could be, because, if I recall correctly, YAN was set in the 80s– but it would make me very happy if it was.