i want to read the lads some more old daniel pinkwater and it's kind of weird how much of his old stuff is out of print and has never been put in omnibuses. the library doesn't have any of the good stuff prior to like, lizard music. i want the WEIRD stuff - ThreadSky

spindlypete.bsky.social • 53 days ago

i want to read the lads some more old daniel pinkwater and it's kind of weird how much of his old stuff is out of print and has never been put in omnibuses. the library doesn't have any of the good stuff prior to like, lizard music. i want the WEIRD stuff

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edwardericsonjr.bsky.social•53 days ago

Pinkwater...now that's a name I have not heard in a long time...

Bless you my child.

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

i have a copy of 5 Novels but i wish that was like the first of five or six compendium editions with all the freaky deaky stuff in them, i don't want to hunt them down individually on thriftbooks

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

if you know of any retiring middle school lit teachers who have a collection of very battered and worn pinkwaters they're looking to unhand, i would like to submit my name for their consideration

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

i guess i want the YA novels and chapter books more than i want the picture books. they're for reading aloud while the lads are playing, for language exposure, not for sitting and looking at together and understanding

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

this mf has 136+ books! i can't buy all those individually on thriftbooks i'll go broke even if they're each $1

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

fun fact his original first name was Manus but he changed it when the leader of cult he was in at the time told him he should have a name that started with a D

snowden.st•53 days ago

Is this rhyming with Janus or heinous?

orbitdyne.bsky.social•53 days ago

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death got young me interested in reading again.

kapustadiamond.bsky.social•53 days ago

I feel like I am just buying this stuff up at the thrift store for the next generation of kids because I want them to know the joys of Elizabeth Enright and such and I know that's not on the shelf at the public library anymore.

mwkiley.bsky.social•53 days ago

thriftbooks! many titles!

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

yeah but he has like 100+ titles, it would just be easier if there were more compendiums. i guess there's four

fadeddunaway.bsky.social•53 days ago

Maddening. Lizard Music is amazing. Also, when they’re older it’s gonna be such a pain to find the good Paul Zindel books— start looking now!

emeffem.bsky.social•53 days ago

I got a copy of Fat Men From Space and my kid was blown away 🥹

cpgorski.bsky.social•53 days ago

... Lizard Music was one of the best! But, yeah, it's hard to find some of his stuff. I think all thirty pages of Ducks! was going for about $100 last I looked

normcharlatan.bsky.social•53 days ago

A chicken emergency? In Hoboken?

copyrightlibn.bsky.social•53 days ago

The Hoboken Chicken Emergencyclopedia is one of my favorite reference works!
https://pinkwater.com/hce/

bagofmoons.bsky.social•53 days ago

OMG!!!

copyrightlibn.bsky.social•53 days ago

I mean, mostly bc I love to say Emergencyclopedia, but it sounds -better- with Hoboken and chicken in front of it.

bbdurall.bsky.social•52 days ago

Don't know if any of them are what you're looking for, but the Internet Archive has a pretty good selection of Pinkwater titles. https://archive.org/search?query=daniel+pinkwater&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

elialbert.com•53 days ago

thank you for the reminder ! i loved lizard music growing up and now i get to read it to my kids ❤️

libraryephemera.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ask your librarian to put in an ILL (interlibrary loan) request for the out of print stuff, they should be able to track down some of those to borrow.

distantroaring.bsky.social•53 days ago

hoboken chicken emergency is one of those books i forget about for years on end and then i wake up in a cold sweat thinking of the giant chicken named henrietta

marigolds.bsky.social•52 days ago

how have I never heard of him? I read every book in the children’s section of the library by the time I was 8!! i’m going to seek them out now

khandozo.bsky.social•53 days ago

We bought a lot of it used, and it is FRUSTRATING how much of it is hard to find. One of my kids made me find a used copy of The Big Orange Splot a few years ago because he missed it. (We gave our copy to a family with littler kids at some point.)

cinife.bsky.social•53 days ago

I love lizard music. Which is your favorite? Now I’m worried I haven’t read the weird stuff.

spindlypete.bsky.social•53 days ago

probably Young Adult Novel but that's not really the weirdest either

jgriffingraham.bsky.social•53 days ago

YES

I’m genuinely baffled that it’s so hard to find. It was a big part of my childhood!

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