Felix

August 19, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

Many winters ago, well a couple years at least, I discovered the four and five book collections of your work. I read them, fell deeply in love with the stories, forgot them for some time, found them again and loved their previously undiscovered quirks and connections that caught my slightly older eye. My question is simply that where can I get more? You’re books have probably been one of my biggest influences in my growing up and now I long to find more of these smart, witty and goofy tales which I have loved so much. I have been unable to find a Pinkwater well (pardon the terrible pun, I’m sure you’ve heard it before) in Canada. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you regardless for the sheer love of reading your books have instilled in me.

Sincerely and Respectfully,

Felix

bryan

August 15, 2007

dear danial pinkawater im writing this great book that i think can make it to become a best seller the problem is i dont have any connections to publish it? can you ask dav pilkey if he can give me advice.

p.s are you dav pilkey or mr.pinkwater.

Kathleen

August 13, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I recently purchased the PBS video “Fat,” and I was impressed by your outlook. I am very fat. I went to the emergency room with a triple migraine once and asked if they could do an MRI of my head. The doctor said, “We’d have to take you to the zoo.” I know well the accepted prejudice and cruelty toward fat people. I am curious about your books (geared to children and to adults) that are available, relating to weight. Thanks for your contribution to the film. By the way, I’m originally from Middletown, New York.

Sincerely,

Kathleen

Linda and Charles

August 9, 2007

Dear Daniel,

My seven-year-old son Charles and I have been reading the Neddiad together. We love the book, and we have one question. Is Seamus Finn’s name an homage to the Harry Potter books? One of Harry’s fellow Gryffindors is Seamus Finnigan.

Just curious.

Thanks,

Linda and Charles

sue

August 2, 2007

Hey Mr. Pinkwater! I went to the library the other day and two of your books were getting discarded. I bought them (Wingman and the moose one). If I send you one, will you sign it? Should I include a big envelope with sufficient postage? I saw you speak at the book expo a couple of months ago. Was that boring or exciting for you?

Anonymous

August 2, 2007

Hello ,Daniel I enjoyed your book about the big chicken in Hoboken New Jersey it was awsome i think your the best author because i never

get to talk to some authors online have fun writing!

Bruce Dreyfuss. MD

August 1, 2007

Dear Mr.Pinkwater,

You do not need to have a sandwich named after you to achieve some degree om immortality. You already have it with me as I bake a bread which I call Pinkwater Bread. A number of years ago you did a piece on your Aunt Sadie’s mashed potatoes. My, or rather your, bread is loosely based upon her recipe. So no need to go down to St.Leon’s, sit back and feel tomorrow today.

Bruce J.Dreyfuss, M.D.

Stuart Monteath

August 1, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I recently heard about your efforts to have a sandwich named after yourself. I am a childless white guy in my forties from the Southern US. Please rest assured that you have already made a lasting impression on me through your works. You will not be forgotten. In the future, anytime I make a new dish at my home (and I stop to think about it) I’ll call a “Pinkwater”.

Lovingly, Stuart

Gary Lucy

July 31, 2007

Dear Mr Pinkwater,

Congratulations! The Neddiad is another classic, surely amongst your best. The last time I wrote you was about 17 years ago, at a real low-point in my life: depressed, directionless, practically homeless. I wanted more than anything to be a writer but lacked the courage. And you sent me back the nicest, most encouraging postcard that really made all the difference. I followed my dream and it’s really worked out well so far. I even won an Emmy! Better still, I got married and now have a sweet sonny boy who also enjoys your books. Would nice things have happened for me even if you hadn’t written me back in 1990? Probably. But you did. So thanks. You, sir, are a hero. I hope we cross paths some time. If you’re ever in LA, I’ll take you to a Korean restaurant where the Brown Derby currently sits, fully preserved yet starved of dignity, atop a strip mall.

Sincerely,

Gary Lucy

Tom Cutler

July 24, 2007

I came to your forum upon googling my friend’s, Kareem Haddad’s, name. The interesting part is I came to research anything I could of Kareem’s untimely death several years ago. The post was from 1997 and it mentioned him and Joshua Cohen having written something in your ‘guest book’ if not for lack of a better term. Both Kareem and Josh died in seperate accidents shortly after they graduated from high school. Both were very creative. Unfortunately they both had accidents that could have been avoided- had they the type of outlook upon humanity that would foster a better self preservation. Needless to say, I will go out and BUY at least a couple of your books to keep on my young boys’ book shelf until they see fit to read them.

Martha

July 24, 2007

I just read Fish Whistle (it was very good) and discovered that the Chicken Man was a real person. Where do you meet people like that? Do you have to go to Chicago in the 1950s, or what?

Also, who are some of your favorite authors (besides yourself)?

Robert L. Summers

July 22, 2007

You are not going to like this one either… I found a copy of “The Afterlife Diet” at a local second-hand book shop for three dollars. Inside it was stamped, “Garrettsville Library Discard” Better add a second shift to the halvah mine.

RS

Mark Steiner

July 22, 2007

Well, then.

Perhaps I am in a position to help you. Apparently I am the only possessor of any shred of that beautiful little radio play, albeit in its pathetic and tangled state.

I will see if I can’t put it back together, and get it documented in a suitable digital condition.

Don’t you remember, really? “I spent my time doing ‘Vampire’ things…”They were eating sardine and onion sanwiches…what neat guys.”

It is up to me to save this for your Nobel Prize nomination. (wink)

Catherine

July 19, 2007

Mr. Pinkwater. Around the middle of May I was stuck in the same position as many teachers, wondering how on earth I could keep my reading group of 6th graders interested and engaged enough to make it through the rest of the year. This is no easy task and I was despairing until I got the idea to share with them one of my favorite books; The Hoboken Chicken Emergency. They were instantly big fans and wondered why I had been holding out with something so cool. My students are all children of emigrants themselves so that aspect especially rang true for them. I just wanted to say thank you for making my job easier and more fun. On a side note, I got your Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories shortly after we got a Newfoundland puppy and I laughed reading about all the silly things dogs do. They really are wonderful creatures and I’m glad to hear my dog isn’t the only goofy one out there. Thanks again and I look forward to more books.

Nathan

July 18, 2007

If space weren’t like an elliptical bagel with poppy seeds, but more like an onion bagel with cream cheese, tomato slices, some red onions, lots of nova lox, some chives, and maybe a caper or two, where would Brazil be? I live in Brazil, and there are no decent bagels here.