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The talking blue moose attempts to unravel the riddle of the Moospire, a vampire moose that reportedly lurks near the town of Yellow Tooth.
Hardcover, 44 pages
Published
January 1st 1986
by Little Brown and Company
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A self-indulgent book for the Pinkwater fan.
I read an interview with DP at some point in which he complained that it was getting hard to publish "his" kind of book and that publishers only wanted serious books about serious problems. And yet, this utterly frivolous book got published. I have no idea who the intended audience for it would be, other than Pinkwater cultists.
It's basically a short story-length text, written at an upper elementary/middle school level full of weird ideas, absurdist h ...more
I read an interview with DP at some point in which he complained that it was getting hard to publish "his" kind of book and that publishers only wanted serious books about serious problems. And yet, this utterly frivolous book got published. I have no idea who the intended audience for it would be, other than Pinkwater cultists.
It's basically a short story-length text, written at an upper elementary/middle school level full of weird ideas, absurdist h ...more
I don't know how to review this.
Crack. Pure crack. ...more
Crack. Pure crack. ...more
Don't know how this ended up on my shelf, but I thought it was a silly book. It seemed to be the right size for an emerging reader, but a child that age wouldn't understand most of it.
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