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The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where TheyWent, and Went There (Neddie & Friends #2)
A sequel to critically acclaimed THE NEDDIAD told from the point of view of Ned's friend, Iggy
La Brea Woman is missing. Valentino, too. The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left!
Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, no matter what Neddie Wentworthstein and Seamus Finn say.
There’s just the little matter of traveling to another pla...more
La Brea Woman is missing. Valentino, too. The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left!
Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, no matter what Neddie Wentworthstein and Seamus Finn say.
There’s just the little matter of traveling to another pla...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
February 16th 2009
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
(first published 2008)
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This book was the sequel to Pinkwater's "The Neddiad". While this book wasn't as hilarious and quirky as "The Neddiad" it was still a great read.
Iggy is wondering why the ghosts that live in the hotel her and her parents permanently inhabit are disappearing. With the help of the main characters from the Neddiad (Neddie and Seamus) she tries to find out. As with the Neddiad the path to the answer is funny, not at all straight-forward, and full of general craziness.
I was excited that this book was...more
Iggy is wondering why the ghosts that live in the hotel her and her parents permanently inhabit are disappearing. With the help of the main characters from the Neddiad (Neddie and Seamus) she tries to find out. As with the Neddiad the path to the answer is funny, not at all straight-forward, and full of general craziness.
I was excited that this book was...more
So I was very taken in by the name of the book. I was also drawn by the Neil Gaiman blurb on the cover. What neither of these can account for however is how a kids' book (and not typical young adult, but like 8-11) ended up with the grown up books. This isn't typically a genre I'd read, but I'll do my best to be fair.
To begin with I did enjoy the books. The 2 page chapters and super short sentences took some getting used to, but overall Pinkwater had a good rhythm to things. There are some obvi...more
To begin with I did enjoy the books. The 2 page chapters and super short sentences took some getting used to, but overall Pinkwater had a good rhythm to things. There are some obvi...more
Aug 16, 2009
Agathafrye
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
kids of all ages
Recommended to Agathafrye by:
Carrie, indirectly.
Another classic Pinkwater romp. Yggdrasil, Neddie, and Seamus set off on an adventure to see why all of their ghost friends from the Hermione Hotel have disappeared, and where they have gone. They end up in an alternate reality where kids are randomly rounded up and brainwashed with TV in a hole in the ground, and people do urban mountaineering on buildings, and the police are dogs, etc. etc. My favorite part of the book is when the group finds a community of tiny hippies called Hoopies that fee...more
So, apparantly I have gone and read another book that is a sequel without reading the book that comes before it again. That is ok, you don't have to have read the prior book to enjoy this one. Written for children in grades 4 to 9 or so, this is a cute and funny book about Yggdrasil Birnbaum who lives in a haunted hotel and goes on adventure to find out where her ghost friends have been disappearing to. Set in LA in the early 1950s with the ghosts of Rudolph Valentino, LaBrea girl , Chase, the g...more
Recommended for gr. 5-8. Sequel to The Neddiad by Pinkwater. Minor references were made to The Neddiad, but as far as I could tell, no previous knowledge was needed to enjoy this story. In this humorous fantasy set somewhere in the 1940's, Iggy (short for Yggdrasil) is friends with a number of ghosts, several of them famous people, who live in her apartment building in Los Angeles. With the help of two friends, she travels to an alternate reality to discover where the ghosts have been disappeari...more
Yggdrasil Birnbaum (you can call her Iggy, but she won't like it) and her friends find that the only thing that makes 1950's Los Angeles tolerable is the large ghost population. But when the ghosts start disappearing from the very haunted residential hotel where Iggy's family lives, she decides to follow them to another existential plane, where there's a big ghost party (ghosts will go anywhere for a good party). Along with her pals Neddy and Seamus, she finds more than she bargained for on anot...more
Same whimsical nature as Neddiad, but not quite as good. It seemed the author ran out of time, or steam, or had a creative block: the end was too fast, too rushed. Also, toward the end, the author seemed to stop describing his own world and start borrowing elements from other worlds.
What the reason for this is, I don't know. But, I do know that the third book in this "series", if it can be called that, is currently in the works. "Adventures of a cat-whiskered girl". Slight disappointments with Y...more
What the reason for this is, I don't know. But, I do know that the third book in this "series", if it can be called that, is currently in the works. "Adventures of a cat-whiskered girl". Slight disappointments with Y...more
A fun addition to the story begun in The Neddiad. This one I didn't love quite as much, since it didn't have as much about Los Angeles in it (though it did have some, in the beginning especially), and I kept forgetting that Yggy was the protagonist/narrator. She didn't seem as differentiated from the narrative voice of Neddie as I would have expected and liked. Nonetheless, Pinkwater is fabulous and I would snap up another of his books in a heartbeat. No one else can write about labrador retriev...more
This is the perfect follow-up to the Neddiad. It is a little shorter and easier to read (with shorter chapters) but it still packs in all the fun and wierd, wonderful adventure. It takes a pretty much completely different route than the Neddiad did, and only refers to the other book once in a while (so you can not have read it and still read Yggyssey). Refreshing, intelligent, and funny. I learned lots of interesting things, like who invented the smoothie. Plus, any book that prominently feature...more
Where The Neddiad was (kinda, sorta, mostly) set in the real world, The Yggyssey (How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There) starts in the same world, but quickly moves to a parallel, more surreal world where Iggy, a young woman introduced in the first book, makes a perilous, episodic journey (much like, say, The Odyssey).
The Yggssey by Daniel Pinkwater is the sequel to The Neddiad. As the Greek inspired title implies, this book follows Iggy, aka Yggdrasil. She is the girl who lives in a hotel haunted by Hollywood movie star ghosts. She's noticed now that the ghosts are going missing and she decides to figure out why they're leaving and where they are going.
If The Neddiad was Pinkwater's Iliad, or more specifically, a long on-going war, ultimately decided not by a horse but a turtle, then The Yggssey is the autho...more
If The Neddiad was Pinkwater's Iliad, or more specifically, a long on-going war, ultimately decided not by a horse but a turtle, then The Yggssey is the autho...more
In this wacky sequel to The Neddiad, Yggdrasil Birnbaum (Iggy for short), and her friends live in the residential Hermione Hotel, talking and hanging out with movie stars, cowboys, and ghosts (famous and not so famous). When Iggy’s ghost friends start to disappear, she wants to know why. In this parallel of the Odyssey, Iggy and three friends follow her ghost bunny friend, Chase, through a portal into a zany underworld full of familiar and unfamiliar characters from myths and fairy tales.
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I feel disloyal giving this less than four stars, but I just didn't love it as much as I could have.
On the other hand, I DID love the food, the allusions (Wanda with her "oh, millions" of cats made me hoot on the bus!), and the general silliness. Also the description of the extremely good-looking boy with his round face and fat, sensitive hands. (I put it on my "fat" shelf just in appreciation of that lovely moment, which I read twice so that I could experience it again.)
On the other hand, I DID love the food, the allusions (Wanda with her "oh, millions" of cats made me hoot on the bus!), and the general silliness. Also the description of the extremely good-looking boy with his round face and fat, sensitive hands. (I put it on my "fat" shelf just in appreciation of that lovely moment, which I read twice so that I could experience it again.)
Fans of the Neddiad will be excited to see this fun romp of imagination...as fans of Neddie, Seamus and Iggy set off on a new adventure.
When Iggy finds out that her name Yggdrasil is a name for the "World Tree", a giant ash that links together the various worlds (or planes of existence), the events of her life come together.
You see, she and her friends hang out in an old Hollywood hotel inhabited by ghosts of the silent era and the famous La Brea Woman.
When Iggy finds out that her name Yggdrasil is a name for the "World Tree", a giant ash that links together the various worlds (or planes of existence), the events of her life come together.
You see, she and her friends hang out in an old Hollywood hotel inhabited by ghosts of the silent era and the famous La Brea Woman.
This sequal to the Neddiad brings back the same weird kids, but is narrated by Iggdrasil Birnbaum rather than Neddie. Iggy was actually a more interesting character in the first book. Her oddities were more pronounced as a secondary character occassionally setting Neddie and Seamus straight than they are telling her story, which turns out to be a bizarre version of the Wizard of Oz. This book is also shorter on the quirkiness of post-war LA that ran through the Neddiad. All the weird places like...more
There is no way to explain a Pinkwater book or describe its plot without sounding like a lunatic or someone on drugs. The only thing you can do is just tell someone to relax and read it. I loved the sly nods he gave to old movies, old books and old actors as well as allusions to various mystical and religious beliefs. And I probably missed half of them. Lots of fun to read. And wouldn't it make a great book discussion book?
I thought the first book, The Neddiad, was a little better but this one was a nice continuation. It's imaginative and fun. If you're thinking about getting it for your kids or reading it to them, I'd say it's at about a 9 year old level.
Round two was not quite as entertaining as round one, but still good. There was less suspense in this book. A lot of little mysteries and one big adventure, but nothing to keep you in the book for hours. Easy to put down and read in pieces. The main character, Yggy, was not as interesting from her own point of view as she was from her male friend's pov. I liked how in the first book they were totally confused by her. This book would be hard to read without reading the first one.
Not as cohesive as the first book, but then the Oddyssey never was, either! Very cute with the gingerbread house and "Norman" instead of "Nobody." And the "lotus eaters" equivalents were hysterical, man! :) In my head, all I could think of was the VW bus from Cars... I must say, though, I missed the sirens. If you've read this book and know where they were, please let me know!
Weirder and funnier (and shorter) than The Neddiad... it's got- among other elements- a young girl's first experience with pizza pie, ruminations on whether this "television" thing will ever catch on, the ghosts of Rudolph Valentino and Harry Houdini, a wicked witch, a garlic farmer on a hero's journey, midget hippies and mountaineers from a parallel dimension, and lots of clever references to other fantasy tales. Daniel Pinkwater is great.
Okay, this was an even bigger mishmosh than The Neddiad was. It's like Pinkwater says, "You know what? I think x and y and z are all really neat, so I'm going to stick them all in the plot here." As a result, character development is almost nonexistent and plot points become something that cover a chapter.
I did not like this book at all. This is due to the fact that it is very VERY simple, and is constantly getting off track. Occasionally you think it may turn around and start getting good (and making sense) but it totally flops back down into chaos and, have to say, stupidness.
In Pinkwater's usually zany style, this book set in the not quite real 1950's, a trio of friends set out to figure out where all the ghosts have disappeared to and wackiness ensues. SO much fun, it made a long train ride feel short.
l really liked this book but i didnt understand some of the words in the book
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It was one of the best bookes i have ever read but if you do read this book you will have to read it more than once to understand it! Just wanted to let you know ahad of time:p
This is the sequel to "The Neddiad" which was great. This is good too, very much classic Pinkwater. He is an author for all of us geeky weirdoes.
Quirky, but far too loose, even if it were marketed toward children. Yggdrasil's world is neat, but good only for a peek, not an extended stay.
I think this is a good book for anyone who likes a bit of mystery and silliness. This is a book about a girl named Yggrasil who is friends with military school students and plenty of ghosts, her best friend being a black bunny ghost. Her father is a retired old west cowboy actor. When she hears the news that some of the ghosts in an old haunted hotel are going missing , her and her friends set off to find out where they went and go there. they run into trouble and meet new friends along the way.
Neat! He has it available on his website before it gets published: http://www.theyggyssey.com/intro.html
Iggy goes to see where the ghosts went through the cooking class. Fun and quirky, story line is alittle weak.
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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...more
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I didn't know he wrote middle grade.
Jun 29, 2009 06:43pm