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Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl (Neddie & Friends #3)
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with cat’s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat’s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?
Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving Marlon Brando across the country to Poughkeepsie, New York, city of mystery. She finds she...more
with cat’s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat’s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?
Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving Marlon Brando across the country to Poughkeepsie, New York, city of mystery. She finds she...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
June 7th 2010
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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Pinkwater, D. (2010). Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
268 pages.
Appetizer: Big Audrey is from another plane of existence. She had been visiting Los Angeles but has since relocated to Poughkeepsie, where she works at a UFO bookshop.
While visiting the local insane asylum, she befriends a girl named Molly who has a tendency to notice things that others don't. They go in search to find aliens and while meeting a number of quirky characters (including an old wise woman,...more
268 pages.
Appetizer: Big Audrey is from another plane of existence. She had been visiting Los Angeles but has since relocated to Poughkeepsie, where she works at a UFO bookshop.
While visiting the local insane asylum, she befriends a girl named Molly who has a tendency to notice things that others don't. They go in search to find aliens and while meeting a number of quirky characters (including an old wise woman,...more
How does one describe this book? This is a companion book to The Neddiad and The Yggysy, where we first met Audry, the cat-whiskered girl. Audrey arrived in Los Angeles through a portal from another dimension, then hitched a ride to Poughkeepsie, NY with Marlon Brando. Once in Poughkeepsie, Audrey befriends some interesting characters, some with questionable sanity. One of the things I love about Pinkwater's books is not only that his characters are so odd (yet so familiar) but that they are not...more
Pinkwater, Daniel. (2010). Adventures of a cat-whiskered girl. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Category: Science fiction, humorous stories
Big Audrey has cat-like whiskers and cat-shaped eyes and comes from a different "plane of existence". She travels cross country with Marlon Brando (one of the few clues that this story is set in the 1950's) from Los Angeles. She gets out randomly in Poughkeepsie, NY, not being able to tak Brando's bongo playing. She gets a job at a UFO bookstore and stays with owne...more
Category: Science fiction, humorous stories
Big Audrey has cat-like whiskers and cat-shaped eyes and comes from a different "plane of existence". She travels cross country with Marlon Brando (one of the few clues that this story is set in the 1950's) from Los Angeles. She gets out randomly in Poughkeepsie, NY, not being able to tak Brando's bongo playing. She gets a job at a UFO bookstore and stays with owne...more
Note: This review concerns an advanced reading copy. There may have been changes made to the published version.
This is maybe the dumbest book I have ever read. Normally when starting off a review with a statement like that, this would be the point where I explain why being dumb is actually a good thing, but in this case, it isn't. This novel is simply pointless and, in my estimation, poorly written.
I will give it one point of praise: despite this being apparently the third in a series I have no...more
This is maybe the dumbest book I have ever read. Normally when starting off a review with a statement like that, this would be the point where I explain why being dumb is actually a good thing, but in this case, it isn't. This novel is simply pointless and, in my estimation, poorly written.
I will give it one point of praise: despite this being apparently the third in a series I have no...more
Often children who love to read have an author who captured their imagination and made them fall in love with the written word. Daniel Pinkwater is that author for me. I read his Lizard Music when I was in 4th grade. I was lucky enough to meet him when he visited The Worthington Public Library on High Street in Old Worthington as a child. His latest work, The Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, is full of bizarre characters and strange happenings. Big Audrey, like the title suggests, has whisker...more
Sweet and a bit too quirky for me to follow. Perhaps I needed to read the Neddiad and the Yggdessey to understand why cat-whiskered Audrey decides to make her home on this plane of existence (Evan though I loved her explanation of multiple coexisting planes of existence as a house with multiple levels, with different families living on each level, unaware of the other floors, and thinking they're the only ones living in the house). The story centers on Audrey's attempt to find the cat-whiskered...more
A tale of many delights. This is the third book in Pinkwater's latest series, so successfully begun in The Neddiad and The Yggyssey, and again he has tantalizingly planted the seeds of a story to follow. This could go on and on! He's really hit a certain pitch here and is humming along quite nicely. The inimitable crackpot fantasy of such of Pinkwater's classic tales as Yobgorgle and Lizard Music is here in full flower, and every few pages I just stop and laugh out loud, but he seems to be comfo...more
Big Audrey, the Cat-Whiskered Girl, finds herself on a different plane of existence in this companion book to the Yggyssey and the Neddiad. Unsure of how or why she got there, she lands a job at a local bookstore (UFO Bookstop) because the owners believe her to be an alien. She meets interesting (and lovable) locals who accompany her on a host of adventures trying to solve the mystery of who she is and where she came from. Those who appreciate Pinkwater's off-beat humor (Which I sooooooo do) and...more
LOVE Daniel Pinkwater. I wish I'd encountered his books as a teen, but I've loved them for years as an adult. In this book he explores interdimensional time, New York history, folklore, relationships, and fried food. Just the book for minds that are interested in everything. It might be difficult for a young reader just learning about things to sift out the facts from imagination; some of Pinkwater's fiction is very subtle, and a lot of reality sounds too extreme to be true. Reading Pinkwater is...more
If you liked The Neddiad and The Yggessey, read on. Big Audrey has, well...cat whiskers. She and her crazy friends - all have a special mysterious talent or skill- aid and abet her on this journey to find more cat-whiskered people. Some characters are tag-alongs from a psychiatric hospital, some are just strange like Chicken Nancy (one of my fav's). Reading a story likes this gives you hope for...well... the crazy side of life and makes us question "what is real?" Sweet and funny, engaging chara...more
"Incidentally, I don't know how late you were planning to stay, but there is an excellent film this evening The Snake Pit. It's a wonderful comedy. I've seen it several times." p. 40.
Big Audrey has her own quest in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater. She hitches a ride from Los Angeles to Poughkeepsie, New York and there she finds clues to her true identity.
This book is like the Shutter Island for middle graders and tweens. What appears to be real isn't necessarily real and...more
Big Audrey has her own quest in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater. She hitches a ride from Los Angeles to Poughkeepsie, New York and there she finds clues to her true identity.
This book is like the Shutter Island for middle graders and tweens. What appears to be real isn't necessarily real and...more
Note: Free Advanced Reader Copy received at ALA 2010 from publisher.
For a fairly lighthearted adventure, this story packs some pretty heavy concepts. I appreciate that Pinkwater is both willing and able to expose young minds to concepts like alternate planes of existence, destiny, and existentialism without dumbing it down OR making it boring is downright incredible. And this is exactly the right age to expose people to these concepts, as their brains have not hardened into tight little balls of...more
For a fairly lighthearted adventure, this story packs some pretty heavy concepts. I appreciate that Pinkwater is both willing and able to expose young minds to concepts like alternate planes of existence, destiny, and existentialism without dumbing it down OR making it boring is downright incredible. And this is exactly the right age to expose people to these concepts, as their brains have not hardened into tight little balls of...more
Pinkwater is a pretty goofy writer. I was questioning if I would want to keep reading this book, let alone get a student to try. I stuck it out a bit more and it turned into a pretty amusing and fairly exciting story. It made me remember a book I read years ago called The Infinite Worlds of Maybe. It's actually a companion (I'm not sure if it is actually a sequel) to two previous books which I've now had to ILL from the public library. Agh! No wonder I can never get caught up!
Big Audrey knows that she's from a different existential plane, but life in Poughkeepsie is just plain strange. It's not just the crazy people coming down from the local asylum, nor the customers at the UFO bookstore, where she works. It's the Muffin Man lurking in the woods, and the fact that many of her friends think that she's really a woman called Elizabeth who lived a long time ago.
I usually love Pinkwater but this was so-so. Part of a trilogy (The Neddiad, which I read but can't remember, and "The Yggyssey", which I did not read) this is about a girl from another plane of existence, flying saucers, a mysterious mansion, apple fritters, and a monster who our heroine (Big Audrey) sees as a cute little puppy dog. It sounds better than it is.
A fun romp, the 3rd in The Neddiad series, following Big Audrey who we met in the last book. It's almost impossible to describe this plot without giving things away, or baffling people, so let's just say it was full of bits that made me laugh out loud and twists that are impossible to predict because they are so classically Pinkwater. Excited for book three...
It's Daniel Pinkwater - what's not to like? Main character is a girl who may or may not be an alien and what she did in Poughkeepsie. Time travel, parallel universes, quirky characters. I'd recommend it to the smart kids but better to start them out on The Neddiad which is fairly normal in the beginning. Pinkwater may be an acquired taste well worth acquiring.
This was an impulse pick at the library when /i was picking up a book they were holding for me. It was interesting, even if it is a children's book. It discusses different dimensions somewhat, and was an enjoyable read.
Most of this book was quite enjoyable - the puns, silly people (a Professor of Classical Accounting who occasionally checks himself into a madhouse) and adventures made me smile. There were moments, however, when I felt that either the author was reaching for filler or that he was just plain reaching. I also wonder about some of his allusions: if a student were to research Poughkeepsie, based on this book, they'd be disappointed (his tale about Bannerman's Island, on the other hand, is a good in...more
Pinkwater. Every few books should be a Pinkwater. Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl did not disappoint. Bonus references to the 2000 year old man and Maurice Sendak!
One of the things I really love about Pinkwater is his way of making ordinary places superfantastic. Hoboken has giant chickens and hero librarians, wherever Victor lives (haven't read Lizard Music in a few years) has jazz-virtuoso outer space lizards and clairvoyant chickens, as well as big sisters who conveniently go out of town s...more
One of the things I really love about Pinkwater is his way of making ordinary places superfantastic. Hoboken has giant chickens and hero librarians, wherever Victor lives (haven't read Lizard Music in a few years) has jazz-virtuoso outer space lizards and clairvoyant chickens, as well as big sisters who conveniently go out of town s...more
Another fine Pinkwater story featuring Big Audrey from the earlier novel The Yggysey. Highly recommended, especially for its mention of the little known area of study known as classical accountancy!
if i am very, very good, then someday when i die i will be reincarnated inside a daniel pinkwater book. as one of the odd characters, of course, not the dreaded normal ones.
Possibly the last (though I'm hoping for another) in the series that began with The Neddiad, this book was way out there with more on parallel universes, space travel and other supernatural elements. i really enjoyed it! Daniel Pinkwater has such a matter of fact way to his story telling that all of the crazy plot twists seem to come as no surprise and the characters weather them all with good humor and good food.
Seriously? With a title like that, you expect something truly unique. There were some fun parts, but mostly, I was just bored. So sorry, Mr. Pinkwater.
Great book. Better than Yggyssey, not up with Neddiad. Looking forward to the next book in the "series" -- Bushman Lives.
Incredibly bizarre, but often funny. I really missed Crazy Wig and Neddie, though. The Neddiad is still my favorite of the set.
Jul 10, 2010
Martha
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
4th - 7th graders
Shelves:
middle-school,
2010
Not sure if this is science fiction or just strange. Continuing a saga, evidently. But some of 'my' kids really like this one.
Is it fantasy? It is more like magical realism. For those familiar with the author's quirky, nutty, other worldly fiction, you will appreciate this book. The main character in this book was in his last book. I love the wonderful weirdness of Daniel Pinkwater. He is the guru we all need to listen to.
Very entertaining. Feels a lot like sitting down with a favourite relative and having a long and wacky story told to you...
Not as good as the first two related books, The Neddiad and The Yggyssey, but mostly enjoyable and typical Pinkwater.
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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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