Synopses & Reviews
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with catandrsquo;s whiskers . . .
and sort of catandrsquo;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 has questions needing answersandmdash;and a bit of inter-plane-of-existence traveling to do.
Big Audrey and her telepathic friend Molly zigzag off on an incredibly strange and kooky adventure, and solve the mystery of the cat-whiskered doppelganger.
Review
andquot;Well stocked with the usual oddball characters and fabulous throwaway lines (andquot;Doughnuts are not unknown where I come from, but they are not used as foodandquot;), the book sails along in an airy and vastly entertaining way to an appropriately daffy resolution. Pinkwater is definitely on a rollandmdash;or in this case a fritter.andquot;--Kirkus
andquot;Mixing the absurd with the profound, Pinkwaterand#39;s odd narration will have even the most serious readers laughing at the chaos. As Audrey notes, andquot;Very often when crazy people are not actively being crazy, they are less crazy than regular people who are a little bit crazy at all times.andquot;--Booklist
andquot;Pinkwater meanders all over the place in his storytelling, weaving together nonsense and humor with bits of actual history and science. The story is fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny, and though the ending, if it can be called that, doesnand#39;t let up on the weirdness, readers will find reasons to delight on every page.andquot;--Publishers Weekly
Review
"Well stocked with the usual oddball characters and fabulous throwaway lines ("Doughnuts are not unknown where I come from, but they are not used as food"), the book sails along in an airy and vastly entertaining way to an appropriately daffy resolution. Pinkwater is definitely on a rollor in this case a fritter."--Kirkus
"Mixing the absurd with the profound, Pinkwater's odd narration will have even the most serious readers laughing at the chaos. As Audrey notes, "Very often when crazy people are not actively being crazy, they are less crazy than regular people who are a little bit crazy at all times."--Booklist
Synopsis
Big Audrey is a girl . . .with cats whiskers . . .and sort of cats eyes. But is there another catwhiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl? The hilarious story that began with The Neddiad and continued in The Yggyssey comes to its wacky conclusion—sort of—in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl. Now in paperback, this is the perfect tale for any kid who likes his or her humor a little offbeat and characters that are uniquely their own.
Synopsis
A new YA novel in the style of THE EDUCATION OF ROBERT NIFKIN
Synopsis
The old powers try to come back, and the planet is plunged into chaos, and civilization is destroyed, and it gets all violent and evil...the old legends tell that a hero...with the sacred turtle, always...
Los Angeles, California.
Neddie Wentworthstein is the guy with the turtle.
Sandor Eucalyptus is the guy with the jellybean.
Sholmos Bunyip wants the turtle...and he'll stop at nothing to get it.
This is the story of how Neddie, three good friends, a shaman, a ghost, and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.
Synopsis
Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater's story of how Neddie, a shaman, a ghost, three pals, and a maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.
Melvin the Shaman. Sandor Eucalyptus. Billy the Phantom Bellboy. Daniel Pinkwater's weird and wonderful tale of Neddie Wentworthstein's quest to save civilization features some of the most unique heroes and villains a reader could hope to meet. Despite the heavy responsibility that Neddie must carry (not every kid is charged with rescuing humankind from doom), his story is hilarious, warm, welcoming, and sweet.
About the Author
Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater's story of how Neddie, a shaman, a ghost, three pals, and a maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.
Melvin the Shaman. Sandor Eucalyptus. Billy the Phantom Bellboy. Daniel Pinkwater's weird and wonderful tale of Neddie Wentworthstein's quest to save civilization features some of the most unique heroes and villains a reader could hope to meet. Despite the heavy responsibility that Neddie must carry (not every kid is charged with rescuing humankind from doom), his story is hilarious, warm, welcoming, and sweet.Daniel Pinkwater is crazy about writing, and has been trying to learn how to do it for fifty years. He has written about a hundred books, all but two or three of them good. People who own radios may know Daniel Pinkwater as a popular commentator and childrens book reviewer on National Public Radio. At one time, he lived in Los Angeles, went to a fancy private school with the children of movie stars, and ate in The Hat numerous times. He lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New Yorks Hudson River Valley.
Table of Contents
Contents
i. Explaining ix
ii. Where Im From and Where I Am xi
iii. Where I Went xii
1. The UFO Bookshop 1
2. Letters 5
3. People 8
4. Talking Crazy 16
5. Walkabout 21
6. Through the Gate 24
7. The Old Stone Barn 29
8. Cats and Bats 33
9. Back to Abnormal 38
10. Back to Normal 41
11. Fuzzing Saucers 45
12. Pussycats 51
13. What the Professor Found Out 54
14. Who? Where? 62
15. Shes Very, Very, Very Old 66
16. Tea for Three 74
17. Questions 77
18. Quick! 82
19. Yes, I Know the Muffin Man 86
20. Do You or Do You Not Know
the Muffin Man? 89
21. They Are Among Us 92
22. Horse? 96
23. In the Fog 103
24. What Happened? 107
25. Elizabeths Story 112
26. Destiny 117
27. A Giant 121
28. Oh, Hell 125
29. You Can Get Used to Anything, Almost 128
30. On the Island 132
31. Pirate Petes 134
32. Night 138
33. We Play Cards with Monsters 146
34. With the Trolls Before Breakfast 149
35. The Wolluf 155
36. Breakfast with a Wolluf 156
37. Away from the Island 159
38. Harold, Row the Boat Ashore 163
39. Fuss on the Bus 166
40. Mousetrap Soup 170
41. Cloaks 173
42. On a Smooth Stone 175
43. Take the Cloaks 180
44. A Sinking Feeling 182
45. But Where? 185
46. Neither Here nor There 191
47. Jake and the Bean Soup 194
48. Like Mother, Like Son 197
49. Three Little Kids 202
50. Birdheads 206
51. Marched 209
52. Waiting for Midnight 214
53. The Mystic Brothers of the
Mystic Brotherhood 217
54. In the Mystic Temple 218
55. De Boom Is De Sleutel 222
56. Sub-sub-sub-sub-sub 226
57. Thump 229
58. Following 233
59. A Light! 237
60. Much More 240
61. Finally! 242
62. Tell Everything! 245
63. Plans 249
64. I Know What I Know 251
65. Razzle-Dazzle 252
66. The Time Has Come 256
67. The Best Ever 259
68. The Ball at Spookhuizen 263
69. The Grand Dance 266