Jesse
Post #2322 – 20071112
November 12, 2007
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.
Daniel replies:
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.
Luke Pond
Post #2321 – 20071110
November 10, 2007
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?
Daniel replies:
I am not predicting anything. I know what is going to happen, but I prefer not to depress everybody.
Andrew Hjermstad
Post #2320 – 20071109
November 9, 2007
Hello all.
I am looking for a good recipe for Fleegix and I am wondering what brand of cocoa tastes most like it.
Thanks!
Daniel replies:
Cocoa tastes nothing like fleegix, unless you've never had fleegix.
Joey
Post #2319 – 20071108
November 8, 2007
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
Daniel replies:
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.
Joey
Post #2318 – 20071108
November 8, 2007
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
Daniel replies:
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.
kidd soole
Post #2316 – 20071107
November 7, 2007
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
Daniel replies:
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.
Robert L. Summers
Post #2317 – 20071107
November 7, 2007
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.)
Daniel replies:
I usually agree with them.
Alfred Genesee
Post #2315 – 20071102
November 2, 2007
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!
Daniel replies:
Another example of fine scholarship contributed to this website.
Steph Harper
Post #2312 – 20071101
November 1, 2007
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.
Daniel replies:
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.
Chuck Franhein
Post #2314 – 20071101
November 1, 2007
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.
Daniel replies:
There are more good libraries than bad ones, I am sure.
Addie Hakes
Post #2313 – 20071101
November 1, 2007
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.
Daniel replies:
I like all kinds of pie, but not llama pie.
mark klitzke
Post #2311 – 20071031
October 31, 2007
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???
Daniel replies:
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.
Veranda
Post #2310 – 20071029
October 29, 2007
Mr.Pinkwater,
Do you dabble in the history of Children’s books?
For many many years I have been trying to find a children’s book that was special to me when I was a small child. I only remember that it was about a little boy who made companions out of clay and then they came alive and talked to him. It might have been in the Golden Book Series? Sometime around 1953-58? The illustrations were memorable, very soft watercolors. Unfortunately I can not remember the little boys name featured in the story, but it might have been Henry.
Daniel replies:
I do not dabble, but maybe someone who will see this dabbles. Such a dabbler can chime in if s/he knows anything.
Zachariah Ritter
Post #2308 – 20071027
October 27, 2007
Dear Pinkwaters,
I hope you make us more Irving and Muktuk books and Larry books. I hope there’s more of every single book you give us.
Love,
Zachariah and his whole family
(The above is a letter partially typed and then dictated to me by my 4-year-old son. We have been reading your books to him almost every night for about two years, and he loves them. He also likes to make up his own stories about Irving and Muktuk escaping and getting into some sort of mild trouble, then being rounded up and sent back to the zoo.)
Daniel replies:
We'd love to do more Irving and Muktuk books. Just waiting for someone to love to publish them.
Joe Kirkman
Post #2309 – 20071027
October 27, 2007
Who invented the bread twist tie, and in which year?
Daniel replies:
It seems to me that you know the answer, so I won't guess. Tell us.
