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Put a little color in your dreams

The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

July 3, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

(cbr12bingo Orange) One of the advantages of working in a bookstore is that I can plug in the word orange into our in house system and have several titles come up. Since I was trying to keep my color blocks in the picture book genre, The Big Orange Splot was a great choice. I have never been a big fan of Daniel Manus Pinkwater, but know why people like him He is nuts. And I say that with love. Pinkwater just lets us be us. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: being you, cbr12bingo, colors, Daniel Manus Pinkwater

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:221 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: being you, cbr12bingo, colors, Daniel Manus Pinkwater ·
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Revisiting a favorite from when I was 10.

September 2, 2015 by scootsa1000 1 Comment

When I was a wee Scoots, I had a few authors that I loved. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Judy Blume. John D. Fitzgerald (seriously, The Great Brain books were the best). And when I could get my hands on his books, I loved Daniel Manus Pinkwater. His books were just so crazy and weird, I couldn’t help but love them. Fat Men From Space. The Hoboken Chicken Emergency. The Avocado of Death. These books were really unlike anything I had every read before. And Lizard Music is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR7, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Joemyjoe, Lizard Music, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR7 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR7, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Joemyjoe, Lizard Music, Scootsa1000 ·
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