Jay Blundon

January 1, 1997

Mr. Pinkwater,

Thanks so much for the fun you’ve given us as we’ve read so many of your stories at our nightly bedtime reading sessions! Whenever my sons and I go to the public library, I’m usually the one who heads for the letter P in the kid’s section! My two boys will soon turn 8 and 10, and both of them have expressed their desire to be artists! I’ve created a home page for their artwork, entitled “KidComics”! I’m sure they’d be thrilled to have you visit and send them a letter. It’s at: blundon.biology.rhodes.edu/best.html (then click on “KidComics”).

Thanks so much.

Jay Blundon (long time fan of ice cream in root beer, notorious punster, and neuroscience professor)

P.S. When my oldest son was in 1st grade, I read his class Doodle Flute while he dressed up as Mason Mintz! “That’s just the kinda guy I am!”

You confuse me. First, you read to your kids, which is so good--then you read them stuff by me, which is pratically guaranteed to make them anti-social, difficult, anti-authoritarian weirdos. At least, that is my hope.