Happy Birthday Mr. Pinkwater!
We love you & Blue Moose too!
Sincerely,
Miss Clark’s Fourth Grade Classes of Young Talented Writers and Avid Readers of DP
The Moose and I thank you.
Dear Mr. Pinkwater. Hope all is well with you today.First let me say I am so happy for all you and Mrs. Pinkwater have accomplished. It is wonderful. I have had my first children’s book published by Chosen Word Publishing. It is entitled Ward Appleton’s Pancakes A Special Way.My website is www.wardappleton.com. Mr. Pinkwater I have 26 more stories I hope to publish about my book character Ward Appleton. He is a little boy obsessed about blackberries. His Mom ALWAYS makes something for him about blackberries.All my stories rhyme. I have sold over 800 of my books,and would love the opportunity to send you my book and value your opinion. Children love Ward Appleton,and they ask me all the time what he is doing. I know you are very busy,and I would love for you to check out my website, and let me send my book to you.Thank you so much for your time, and I hope to hear from you.
Sincerely,Marilyn Overcash
My opinion doesn't count. Yours counts. Good luck with the books!
I need some information for my school research project (I’m researching you) and I need some information about you and your wife. I have looked at the p-zone didn’t understand the family history section. I need information, and was hoping that you could please help.
Here's the thing about research: You try to get all the facts as accurately as you can--but seldom, if ever, does anyone get everything just right. So mistakes appear in the record, and the next researcher picks up and repeats some of them up--knows better, and corrects other mistakes--and makes new mistakes, which become part of the record. So, now you are learning something really valuable about history. I don't want to be the one to spoil it for you. You may use this statement as part of your project.
I need some information for my school research project (I’m researching you) and I need some information about you and your wife. I have looked at the p-zone didn’t understand the family history section. I need information, and was hoping that you could please help.
Here's the thing about research: You try to get all the facts as accurately as you can--but seldom, if ever, does anyone get everything just right. So mistakes appear in the record, and the next researcher picks up and repeats some of them up--knows better, and corrects other mistakes--and makes new mistakes, which become part of the record. So, now you are learning something really valuable about history. I don't want to be the one to spoil it for you. You may use this statement as part of your project.
The October 29 New Yorker has a great story about a ski bum who throws parties with homebrewed love potions and decides to start a gourmet chocolate company, travels to the rainforest to find exotic ingredients, and takes a bath in a warm vat of fermenting cacao seeds. Finally he pledges his service to a goddess who commands him to replant the ravaged tropics with a billion cacao trees. It all reminded me of the complacent citizens of Waka-Waka and their culture of reverence for zitzkis berries. Are you predicting that we will save the planet from environmental harm, but become slow-witted servants of chocolate and coffee in the process?
I am not predicting anything. I know what is going to happen, but I prefer not to depress everybody.
Hello all.
I am looking for a good recipe for Fleegix and I am wondering what brand of cocoa tastes most like it.
Thanks!
Cocoa tastes nothing like fleegix, unless you've never had fleegix.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
