Frank Pergande
August 24, 2025
Spreading the Joy
Hiya Mr. Pinkwater!
I recently started working in the children’s area of our local library after having worked with teens and college students for the last 25 or so years.
We have a “Staff Favorites” shelf, which has me thinking about the books I loved when I was smaller, which lead me to think about you.
Our library doesn’t currently have two of my personal favorites (Fat Men from Space and The Hoboken Chicken Emergency), but it does have Borgel and a host of other books that I now get to read before they inevitably make their way to the “Staff Favorite” shelf.
Thanks for all the laffs!
I hope you are well!
Your pal,
Frank
Daniel replies:
Frank, you have one of the great jobs in all of history. Not me, you. You get to deal with all these books, and they're finished and complete, and all you have to do is match them up with clients, who will very possibly enjoy them and maybe have warm memories of some of them, and you did this. Me, I got to write some of them and protect them as best I could from idiots who are numerous in the publishing industry. You have the better job.