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Alice Lockhart

Post #2232 – 20070514

May 14, 2007

I was blown away by the portrait of Henry chez I&M. Thank you both for all the great reads and pictures. My kids may be old enough to read Pinkwaters to themselves, but they kindly let me read each aloud to them first. No need to reply, this is just plain fan mail. But OTOH, if you or yours ever need a place to dine free in Seattle, send me a mail.

Daniel replies:

You're the first person to notice that Irving and Muktuk appreciate fine bear art! Anyway, first one to mention it--(there must have been someone at the publisher, since they do the Henry books as well as our bears). Now I'm waiting for readers who see other things in the bears' collection to come forward.


Abby Borchardt

Post #2231 – 20070514

May 14, 2007

Hi I was in a thing called Battle of the books and i read your book I loved it you rock.

Daniel replies:

You rock too!


Aaron Gelblat-Bronson

Post #2230 – 20070514

May 14, 2007

Where did you come up with the Ideas for the Bobowicz books??? what music do you like

Daniel replies:

Ideas are all around--everyone has 60 a minute, and they are all no good. The trick is to pick an idea, just about any idea, and fool with it, develop it, refine it, until it is less no good. I like almost all kinds of music.


Sam Wittmann

Post #2228 – 20070513

May 13, 2007

Hello again D.P, I know I’ve already sent you one message, but I just want you to know that I picked you for my school’s Author Report. I’m gonna do a report on you and your books. All my classmates think your hilarious. So, once again, thanks for being the coolest author on the planet.

P.S: I wrote a letter to your publisher. They say they’ll redirect it to you but I haven’t gotten anything back, did you receive it but got too caught up in your awesome chicken-related coolness? (That was not meant as an insult however much it sounds like it.)

P.S.S: Your the greatest author in the universe.

Daniel replies:

It is time you learn--publishers are often unable to do things. Even though I am the coolest author in the universe, (yes, you are correct about that), stuff does not always get forwarded. I regret having to bring this depressing news to you.


Sonya Jaworski

Post #2229 – 20070513

May 13, 2007

Two days ago I was packing up some of my books and came across “the Big Orange Splot”, by Daniel Pinkwater, Scholastic Books, 1977. The next day I presented it to my 4 year old daughter, and she has had me read it to her several times. She painted Mr Plumbean’s house this afternoon. I loved this book when I was a little girl, and now my child loves it too.

I have listened to you on NPR for a few years now, and had no idea that you were the author of one of my childhood memories. I’m glad I rediscovered this book in my basement and wanted to say thank you. Even though my years have added up, I still maintain enough of a juvenile outlook to appreciate the story of a nonconformist in a conformist neighborhood.

Thank you again.

Sonya Jaworski

Saint Paul, MN

Daniel replies:

I think it may still be in print. I'd like to get it re-illustrated by Jill or some other good artist.


a student

Post #2227 – 20070511

May 11, 2007

i have to do an author study for a project in school and i picked you as you are a hilarious author and “4 fantastic novels” was suprisingly conveniant for getting 3 of your novels. so now to the reason im sending this; will there ever be a sequel to the superb borgel? whatever happened to mr ronald donald almondotter after his and his fellow companions after kukumlima? and whatever happened to the snarkout boys (and girl) after the werewolf thing/creature?

Daniel replies:

Fun to wonder what happened to characters after the book is over, isn't it?


ABBY

Post #2226 – 20070508

May 8, 2007

This is Abby and I have a question, would you ever write a book about someone you know or have seen a movie or something like that? I think it would be cool if you could do an auotbiography. Or by any chance a biography.

Daniel replies:

Usually I combine all those things--people I've known, movies I've seen, books I've read, autobiography, and lots of other stuff too. It's like a salad.


Julie Jacobs

Post #2225 – 20070502

May 2, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

Thanks so much for your animated response of April 26. I was thrilled to receive any response at all, let alone one with an exclamation point after the very first sentence. I wonder why Dav can’t spell? He writes quite well, despite this impediment.

At any rate, I’m writing again to disagree, mildly, with your final point. Your opinion IS apparently better than many others’, at least in the opinion of NPR and Wonder Time magazine. So I’m siding with them on the issue. I have a feeling I would side with you on other disagreements, such as those involving which dishes to order at a Chinese restaurant, for example.

I remain ignorant of your opinion of my little book, but grateful for your time.

All the best,

Julie

Daniel replies:

Writers can hardly help associating opinions about their books with some kind of comment on ultimate worth, (the books' or their own). This is a mistake. In choosing books for the radio program, I look for books of high quality that would be a good fit for the radio program. In choosing books for the magazine, I look for books of high quality that can relate to the topic I was assigned. In other words, I am looking for books I can write about. So here are my two possible opinions about your book: 1. I can write about this one. 2. I can't write about this one. (That is, assuming it is a book of high quality, which I will assume it is).


Denyse Lee

Post #2224 – 20070502

May 2, 2007

I am a fan .I think I have bought every children’s book you have reccomended.I have written a childrens story about a cat who morphs into a surgeon. Can ,or would ,you suggest a publisher?

Do you still drive a VW ?

I appreciated your comments on the PBS program concerning eating ,hunger, and weight. As usual you hit my emotional sensitivities. Thank you.

Daniel replies:

I can't, or won't, suggest a publisher...but sometimes publishers read these posts. Maybe one will be interested in seeing your story about a cat who morphs into a surgeon. The VW was too small for two people and two big dogs. Alas.


Fran Koliner

Post #2223 – 20070501

May 1, 2007

Dear Daniel Pinkwater,

My copy of the Neddiad arrived last week. As much as I am enjoying the chapter by chapter read on the computer, I couldn’t resist. I sat down and finished the book in one gulp. Wow! This is maybe your best book yet. With out giving anything away, I can say this book took me to places I never expected to go. What an adventure! Yes!

Thank you for another great book experience!

Fran Koliner

Daniel replies:

Thank you! Tell your friends.


Daphne of the chihuahuas

Post #2222 – 20070430

April 30, 2007

YOU ARE THE MOST AWESOME PERSON TO EVER WALK HE FACE OF THE EARTH. Now that i’ve said that, moving on. Okay, I have …one, two, three… Some questions. Question 1, Do you like strawberry cake? Question two, if you had to choose, would you fly off to hawaii on a magical purple horse, or fight a raid squirrel? Question three, If your name was Chuck, would you be the same person you are now? Okay, so uhh, yeah. I have to go take my pet robot chicken ducks to six flags while on the top of a rotating artichoke, Good bye.

Daniel replies:

Answer 1: Rene Descartes 1596-1650
Answer B: 3.14159265358979323846
Answer III: The wisent or European bison.


Gary Keller

Post #2221 – 20070427

April 27, 2007

Happy Day, Mr. Pinkwater…

Have you ever given thought about the relationship between names and careers? For example, would you still have been a successful children’s book author if your name had been, say, “Purpleland”?

Take care and hug the hounds!

Daniel replies:

Actually, the family name was Purpleand in Europe, but my father changed it when he came through Ellis Island, in the hope that one of his children might be a children's author.


Julie Jacobs

Post #2220 – 20070426

April 26, 2007

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

Thanks for your reading voice, the ratatouille recipe, the picture of Lulu on the website, your appearance on the “Fat” documentary, your piece on dyscalculia, the fact that you shared your book chapter by chapter on the website — and for your books, too, including the Captain Underpants ones, if you are, in fact, Dav.

You have told lots of people that you didn’t want to read their unpublished manuscripts so you could have a life, which I understand, so I didn’t send the book when it was unpublished. You have told other people to ask their publishers to send you their books — at the publishers’ expense, which cracked me up — so I did. But I haven’t figured out what happens next.

The folks at Albert Whitman & Co. said they sent you a copy of “My Heart Is A Magic House.” What did you think of it?

Thanks so much for your time, if you do choose to respond,

Julie

Daniel replies:

OK, first of all, I am not Dav! I am sure he is a very nice fellow, never mind he can't spell his own first name. But I am not him. Next, it is true I cannot read or comment on unpublished manuscripts for several good reasons. Because I do the occasional book-talk on NPR, and have a column about books in Wonder Time magazine, I receive a couple thousand published books to look at every year. I go through all these looking for distinguished ones for the radio program and the column. If I were to start telling individual authors what I thought of their individual books, well you see how that would be. So let me make an all-purpose statement: Writing a book is a good thing. And if it finds a publisher, that is very good, and hard to bring off. If you wrote it, it's safe to assume you like it, and if you like it it's safe to assume that some other(s) will like it too. So congratulations, Julie Jacobs. I hope many people like your book, and that you write many more. (Besides, my opinion is no better than anyone else's--I just happen to be mildly famous).


Benj Azose

Post #2218 – 20070421

April 21, 2007

Mr. Pinkwater,

I love your writing, all the way from Spaceburger and Wempires up to your essays. Rather than asking you where you got your ideas, I think I found one such place. By absolute coincidence, I wandered into a used book sale at the Newberry Library… right across the street from a park with a 2-3 foot high fence around it where people could give any sort of speeches that they wanted! What other spots would you recommend on the Daniel Pinkwater tour of Chicago? Any plans to get a tourbus?

Daniel replies:

I want one of those double-decker English-type buses.


DJS

Post #2219 – 20070421

April 21, 2007

I just have to take issue with your comment on the program about obesity that if Leno were to make jokes about gay people, he would be gone. You must not have been listening carefully to his monologues, because I can confidently state that he makes gay jokes several times each week, has been for years, and he’s still there. So, fat people are NOT the last remaining group that it’s acceptable to criticize and make fun of. Both gay and fat people have had to develop a thick skin because of the constant barrages we get from all sides. And if we don’t like Leno, we shouldn’t watch him.

Daniel replies:

Quite right, he does make gay jokes, and black jokes, but they are usually inoffensive if not affectionate. His standard fat joke is usually a little mean-spirited, a shouted, ""how fat are we [Americans]?"" or ""how fat-assed are we?"" The implication being that people are fat because they lack the moral strength to be something else. If his standard gay joke were on the lines of ""those gays--they choose to be gay, and it is discreditable,"" I submit you and a lot of other people would be (more) offended, and he would have to answer for what he said. I do like Jay Leno, and I am not particularly offended by (funny) jokes about those groups to which I belong. I was just making a fairly trivial point, which naturally was left in by the editors of that mostly trivial documentary. I did like the fat chicks dance class, and the shots of my dog.


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