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Welcome back, Mrs. Noodlekugel!

NOODLE&DROOLY_HJ_USComing in May 2015: “Mrs. Noodlekugel and Drooly the Bear”

    When their father decides to compete to be speed-knitting champion of the world, Nick and Maxine are happy to stay with their babysitter, Mrs. Noodlekugel, along with her talking cats and four mice who wear glasses. What they don’t expect is a dripping-wet, whiskered man in the kitchen the next morning! Captain Noodlekugel has left his seafaring life to train animals for the circus, and he’s even brought with him a hefty bear named Drooly for practice. But whenever he tries to teach Drooly to dance, the bear wobbles and falls asleep on the tulips. When Drooly goes missing, the siblings must try to figure out where a big clumsy bear might go!

You can pre-order the book from the publisher, Random House.

Beautiful Yetta is back!

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Just in time for the winter holidays, Daniel and Jill are proud to present “Beautiful Yetta’s Hannukah Kitten.”

    Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish chicken, is back in a heartwarming Hannukah story in which she finds a cold and hungry kitten. This multilingual story, which includes both Yiddish and Spanish translations and pronunciation guides, is a clever introduction to the celebration of Hannukah and a welcome read-aloud for any age.

How Daniel Pinkwater became my personal guru

From The Jewish Daily Forward:

Daniel Pinkwater, 72, is a onetime Fumetti model, an art therapy school dropout, a former Zen Buddhist, a former cult member, a former NPR commentator, a former sculptor, the alleged destructor of Harvey Kurtzman’s Help! Magazine, a gentleman farmer, a decent chess player, a bad minder of friends’ girlfriends, a surrealist, a bohemian, and an old schoolmate of Errol Flynn’s son. He looks like a bald Allan Sherman, if that means anything to you. (It doesn’t mean much to him. “I do remember Alan Sherman. Mildly amusing,” he told me.) His father was a Jewish gangster from Warsaw, about his mother he has mostly bad things to say, his wife Jill Pinkwater is a writer, and he has the greatest radio voice you’ve ever heard, Carl Kasell included.

Read more: forward.com/articles/206667/how-daniel-pinkwater-became-my-own-personal-guru/

Dog essays on the Bob Edwards Show

Daniel has recently been reading some of his classic dog essays on SiriusXM’s The Bob Edwards Show. Want to read the text or hear them again? You’ve got options!

Superpuppy is back!

Now back in e-print — Superpuppy, Daniel and Jill’s classic guide to raising the perfect pooch for you and your loved ones. Click the cover for more info!

Superpuppy

Superpuppy

New Jill Pinkwater eBooks!

We are very happy to announce that a brand new selection of Jill Pinkwater’s wonderful novels are now available as eBooks through amazon.com! Click the covers to purchase or find more information.

Mister Fred

Mister Fred

Buffalo Brenda

Buffalo Brenda

Tails of the Bronx

Tails of the Bronx

The Disappearance of Sister Perfect

The Disappearance of Sister Perfect

What’s new on the Pinkwater Podcast?

downloadWell, for starters, last week we aired a never-before-heard and previously unpublished story by Daniel, called “Kat Hats.” You should listen to it. Also, we’ve started serializing “Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl,” Daniel’s recent novel about Big Audrey, a lovely gal from another plane of existence who just happens to have whiskers.

pinkwater.com/podcast

Alan Mendelsohn added to the Audio Archive

Need I say more? 🙂

pinkwater.com/podcast/audioarchive.php

Comments on the website

Hi all,

I’ve disabled commenting on all pages other than the Talk to DP Forum. While I originally meant the commenting system to be used for generating discussion amongst readers, it was being used more often for sending messages to Daniel Pinkwater. Just to reiterate, kindly use the Talk to DP Forum if you’d like to send the big cheese a message.

Thanks!

Webmaster Ed

New e-books! Updated links! Hooray!

From Daniel’s agent, Jennifer Laughran:

I’m delighted to announce that a whole bunch of Daniel Pinkwater books that have never before been digitized are now available in DRM-free electron versions for reading on your magical device. No more will you be forced to suffer the indignity of touching paper to get your Pinkwater fix!

In alphabetical order — choose your favorites (or heck, buy them all for the low-low price of $2.99 each, I mean really, what a bargain):