Daniel Pinkwater





Daniel Pinkwater

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November 15, 1941

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Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an author of mostly children's books and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. He attended Bard College. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater has also illustrated many of his books in the past, although for more recent works that task has passed to his wife Jill Pinkwater.


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Average rating: 4.03 · 10,316 ratings · 1,639 reviews · 123 distinct works · Similar authors
Lizard Music
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 900 ratings — published 1976 — 12 editions
The Big Orange Splot
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions
The Neddiad: How Neddie Too...
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 714 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, ...
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4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 1977 — 15 editions
The Snarkout Boys and the A...
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy Fr...
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
Fat Men From Space
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1977 — 6 editions
4: Fantastic Novels
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4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
Borgel
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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4.3121546961325965 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 724 ratings
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3.7606177606177607 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 259 ratings
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3.7804878048780486 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 246 ratings
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2.9583333333333335 of 5 stars 2.96 avg rating — 168 ratings
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“My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.”

From “The Education of Robert Nifkin”
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“Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.”
Daniel Pinkwater, Lizard Music

“I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.”
Daniel Pinkwater

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