Steve
Post #2193 – 20071024
October 24, 2007
I just wanted to thank you for “Toothgnasher Superflash”. I have a three year old daughter and my wife and I switch off reading stories to her at night. “Toothgnasher Superflash” is a real joy to read aloud and over the last few months it has turned into quite a performance. My daughter enjoys acting out the dinosaur, elephant, turtle, and chicken and she knows most of the words by heart. As a parent I’ve been reading lots of children’s books lately and “Toothgnasher Superflash” is by far my favorite. Thank you so much.
Daniel replies:
Thank you! And while there's nothing wrong with it, it's not one of what I think of as my best picture books. You tried any of the others?
Wally ""Modest"" Kozicki
Post #2307 – 20071024
October 24, 2007
What do you suggest for food while reading your latest novel?
How many courses of food?
Final question: We don’t have a White Castle around here. Are their burgers okay?
Daniel replies:
I suggest a diet rich in whole grains, fresh vegetables, small amounts of lean meat, fish and poultry, and with no white flour, white rice, potatoes or sugar. White Castle hamburgers are also known, by those who like them, as belly-bombers and sliders. Draw your own conclusions, and don't mistake literary devices for actual preferences.
Evan sheeks
Post #2306 – 20071015
October 15, 2007
hi, um me and my class hav a project, reading your books. and i just wanna ask u if your gonna have lke scary, and crude/funny chator books comin out? so just let me no cause im a BIG fan!
from, evan sheeks
Daniel replies:
It's not for me to say about funny and scary.
Gabriel Woon
Post #2305 – 20071013
October 13, 2007
Dear Mr. Pinkwater, My family listened to your book, “The Neddiad” on a recent trip from Indiana to Atlanta, GA, and it make the 8 hour drive fly by. Not only was the whole family ( ages 10 to 45) amused and enthralled by the tale we particularly liked having it read by you, with your dry humor and snappy dialog. It may have replaced “The Blue Moose” as our favorite. Please pass on to Jill that I loved “Mr Fred” and I am very glad that there is someone in the universe that likes 6th graders. Best Regards, Gabriel WoonKMWGA
Daniel replies:
Thank you! I am smiling. I hope you like THE YGGYSSEY, which I just handed in to the publisher. (Won't be out in book, or CD, form for about a year, but keep checking this site for possible sneak previews).
Nathaniel Rounds
Post #2304 – 20071011
October 11, 2007
Where are the video clips of a dancing DMP?
Daniel replies:
Best available now is one of DMP and his dancing, (anyway dancy-walking), dog.
Stuart Scofield
Post #2303 – 20071009
October 9, 2007
First, I am a big fan. Next, I recorded (probably illegally) your series “The Making of an Artist” from NPR in or around 1987. I have played it for hundreds of my students (probably illegally) around a campfire at 10,100′ in the White Mountains of California-Nevada. The problem is that I am missing chapter 6 (of 7). Is there any place on the planet where there is a recording (or even a transcript) of that series. I have tried NPR unsuccessfully. It is a masterpiece! It is essential to my teaching! I need that chapter! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Daniel replies:
I think the whole series is in Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle, (or Chicago Fish and Hoboken Whistle..I can never remember), the combination of Fishwhistle, and Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights, available from Xlibris. Maybe you would like to compensate for your illegal recording by sending a copy to Webmaster Ed for possible presentation in a podcast we contemplate on this site. Thanks for your kind words.
Robert C. Edmonds
Post #2302 – 20071008
October 8, 2007
I am looking at a crisp copy of the 1966 Bard Student Handbook and also at a yellowed set of Community Council minutes from November, 1964, which contains comments by Bud Hodgkinson about your work on the Handbook. Have you ever written about Bard in the 60’s?
Daniel replies:
You mean written fiction about Bard other than the Student Handbook which was fiction I co-wrote at the end of my freshman year? No. Out of respect for Leon Botstein, I thought I would wait until after he has died.
Gerald Whately
Post #2300 – 20071003
October 3, 2007
Congratulations! Your books have gone into TV reruns! Reading Rainbow has a reading of Tooth Nasher Superflash on PBS, which is presented from time to time–take today, for example. My son loves it. I love it. It would be cooler if you had read the book. But that’s a small complaint. Now we need Ken Burns to do a loving treatment of your writing career in twelve episodes, with closeups and slow pans of your letters to your agent.
Daniel replies:
Typical. From obscurity to reruns. It's been a great career so far.
Angie
Post #2301 – 20071003
October 3, 2007
My 7 year old son and I just visited the public library. He needed to read four books by the end of October. I have read “The Tooth Gnasher Superflash” to my other three boys and decided as a right of passage it was Noah’s turn. We sat and giggled through the entire book and nearly got in trouble. Thank you for entertaining all of my boys. I can’t wait to read it to my grandchildren.
Daniel replies:
And I just heard that book is on television sometimes!
John Barry
Post #2299 – 20071001
October 1, 2007
Dear Daniel & Jill:
I moved to Rochester N.Y.,the home of Kodak.
With any luck, I could successfully train seagulls to carry mail.
Sincerely,
John Barry
Evil Genius
Daniel replies:
If you trained rabbits to carry mail it could be called ""Hare Mail.""
Pauline C.
Post #2298 – 20070930
September 30, 2007
I finally decided my children are old enough(agee 11 and 7) for the responsibility of a peach pit of their own. Do you have any tips for the care and feeding of pet peach pits?
Sincerely,
Pauline
Daniel replies:
Yes, peach pits should be obtained from a reputable breeder. Consistency is paramount in training, also patience. It can take an incredibly long time to teach a peach pit its first trick.
Henrietta the Giant Chicken
Post #2297 – 20070929
September 29, 2007
I am writing to tell you that I have composed a song called “An Ode to Pink”, which includes bits of your speaking and other songs mixed together. How should I send it to you?
I think you’ll like it. Maybe you can even post it on your website!
Daniel replies:
This is a question the webmaster can answer, if anyone can.
Henrietta, send us your email address and we'll be in touch.
Sandro Segalini
Post #2296 – 20070928
September 28, 2007
Myself? Not too much. It’s about my daughter. A never-a-thought-left-unspoken child. Raised abroad. Now brilliant as a high school teacher, spouse & mother, she has published a book “Jackie Tempo And The Emperor’s Seal” initially targeted for pre-teens but in my dotage I loved it too. Available in Borders, Barnes & Noble and local bookstores will order it too. How may I persuade you to read it? Could I send a copy to you? Thanks,
Sandro
ps…l pause whenever you are on my NPR station and have never been disappointed by your commentaries. Bravo.
Daniel replies:
Parents and (professional) publicists: Writing to me here is of no avail. I will look at all books duly sent to me by publishers, and some very few of those will fill the very few slots for books-for-review on the radio program.
Charles Wimmer
Post #2295 – 20070927
September 27, 2007
Last weekend, I saw a documentary about Maxwell Street in Chicago. Needless to say, I am a Chicagoan and you are a former one. In this film, I swear I saw The Chicken Man. Most of the audience was older folks, many of them remember The Chicken Man. The film shows him taking off his hat and there is a chicken underneath it. He hypnotizes the chicken, seems a little odd- perhaps medically, and there is another scene with the police asking him to leave.
My question, of course is:
Is The Chicken Man from Lizard Music based on this guy? or his he purely a product of your imagination? It seems too coincidental to be conincidental.
Thanks,
your loyal reader,
Charles
Daniel replies:
Wait! The chicken man, sometimes known as Humphrey Popcorn, was a real person? That would account for the photograph I have! I had a friend who drove a cab and would see the chicken man in all parts of town, sometimes in a single day. He was convinced that the CM was an eccentric millionaire.
Daniel Pincus
Post #2294 – 20070921
September 21, 2007
Hi,
Several years ago, I heard your encomium to a spanakopita at a Greek cafe near Hyde Park. I am the High Holiday cantor at the Vassar Temple in Poughkeepsie. What is the place called and where is it?
A wonderful year for you and your loved ones,
Dan
Daniel replies:
What a euphonious appellation! Dan Pincus, Dan Pincus--one just wants to say it over and over....for some strange reason. Anyway, the Greek spanakopita place is gone. It's like that around here. People give up easy, or never bother trying. Said establishment was lovingly created, somehow attracted a wonderful Greek chef from the city. Chef left, owner was bored by then, quality sunk, then place was taken over by hapless fools, incapable of making a fried egg on toast sandwich and cup of coffee, (I witnessed this), and now seems totally defunct. Anyway, this is not the day to seek spinach--for you. Vassar Temple is a nice place. Make with the song, praising God--spinach, flaky crust and melty cheese will be provided to the righteous.
