Most Popular Books by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

They were on their own -- three kids and one giant chicken. Stuck in Hoboken for the summer, Nick Itch, Loretta Fischetti, and Bruno Ugg are really, really bored. After whiling away their time spitting in the Hudson River and trying to teach Henrietta, Nick''s 266-pound chicken, how to juggle marshmallows, they''re ready for something -- anything -- to happen. When a mysterious and brilliant chalk artist starts decorating Hoboken''s streets, the three friends are blown away. They set off to explore the art world in a frenzy of adventurous drawing, screeving, and eggplant picnics.

Irving and Muktuk are cheating each other at cards when their polar bear friend Larry drops by for a visit. The bears eat cake topped with little fishes that Larry has brought, play a spirited game of volleyball, and afterward chat pleasantly until Larry goes home. "Visits," Irving and Muktuk decide, "are nice." The next evening, when all is quiet at the zoo, the Bad Bears sneak out to pay a refined visit of their own. When they arrive at the home of the Beachball family, things--as usual for the baffled bruins--get out of hand.

Popular polar bears Irving and Muktuk are back, and this time they are invited to a party by their friend Roy. But can these troublemakers be trusted outside the zoo? Full color.

On a rainy morning, Mr. and Mrs. Submarine invite a cat, dog, coyote, wildebeest, Ludwig van Beethoven, the United States Marine Band, and others into their home to share their breakfast of tea and corn muffins.

Mr. Talbot has taken the Werewolf Club to London! Unfortunately, they made the trip in Uncle H.G. Talbot''s unreliable time-and-space machine, and they''ve arrived in 1890 London- where it might be a tad difficult to buy the 212 double-A batteries they need for the machine to get them home.

The Watson Elementary School Werewolf Club goes on a field trip to Basketball Hall, where Sir Hugo hopes they will solve the mystery of the hound which has plagued his family for generations.

A trained cat who is able to form himself into specialty hats, Thermal Herman is world-renowned for his warmth and agility, but when a friend wanders off with a brain freeze and finds themself in peril, Thermal Herman must rush in to save the day.

Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.

Mush, a dog from the planet Growf-Woof-Woof, relates how she came to be on Earth, and how she and three other animals formed a jazz ensemble that foiled a band of ice cream parlor robbers.

A young girl and Larry, the polar bear who lives in her father''s hotel, enjoy each other''s company and, on an outing to the zoo, they discover Larry''s brother Roy.

After he eats an eighth of a ton of ice cream at Cohen''s Cones, Larry the polar bear happily becomes the spokesbear for the Iceberg Ice-Cream Company under the slogan, I do not feel sick.

After being hit on the head by his mother and told to fend for himself, Larry the polar bear floats from Baffin Bay to New Jersey where he gets a job as a lifeguard.

After little Mildred Frobisher has a sleepover at the hotel where she lives with her parents and Larry the polar bear, Larry decides that he too would like to host a sleepover for his friends.

Larry the polar bear has gone bohemian. He plays bongos, writes poetry, and wears a beret and sunglasses.

The Werewolf Club members deal with Dorkula.

Ronald accompanies his grandfather, the salami snap magnate, and the world famous explorers, Sir Charles Pelicanstein, on an expedition to Africa to search for the intelligent worms of Kukumlina. As it turns out, the intelligent worms of Kukumlina don''t appreciate being discovered.

Two muffin-loving polar bears make a yearly attempt to use stealth and subterfuge to get muffins at the Yellowtooth Blueberry Muffin Festival.

After hearing strict Madame Swoboda''s admonition that "bears have no place in ballet" Larry the lovable polar bear and his friends at the zoo ask little Mildred Frobisher to teach them ballet so they can "tell a story and express feelings through movement" because all polar bears dance. That''s what polar bears do.

In this hilarious new chapter book series with a bite, the first story finds Mr. Talbot leading the kids in the Werewolf Club on a search for the only thing that cures werewolves: the magic pretzel of Alexander the Great. Illustrations.

To liven up Valentine''s Day in Mr. Salami''s second grade class, Big Gloria describes the imminent arrival of the Magic Valentine Potato.

Irving and Muktuk, two muffin-eating polar bears from the frozen north, have some trouble fitting into life at the zoo in Bayone, New Jersey.

Flash Fleetwood finds a very quiet gorilla which he names Phil, and, to the delight of the second grade students, their teacher Mrs. Hotdogbun says he may attend school along with them.

A boy accompanies some guys from space on a visit to another planet, where they discover such incredibly amazing things as talking rocks and root beer with ice cream.

The first adventure of the Fat Camp Commandos is now in paperback. Fed up with the abuse at Camp Noo Yoo, where their parents sent them to lose a few socially unacceptable pounds, the Commandos head back home to seek revenge.

A boy discovers the devil in a kitchen drain and fearlessly deals with him.

Tired of working as a librarian in Alaska, Aunt Lulu takes her sled and her fourteen Huskies and moves to Parsippany, New Jersey.

When the mystic seer of Hoboken and the employees of the Magic Moscow summon the ghost of a famous person, they get a punster with a collection of 1500-year-old jokes.

Steve Nickelson, his assistant Norman Bleistift, and the Magic Moscow restaurant are transported through space to compete in an intergalactic junk food cooking contest.

Roger''s umbrella becomes increasingly more wild and uncontrollable until he meets three old ladies who teach him how to talk to it.

William had a one-in-a-million tooth that received radio programs. His parents wanted the dentist to fix the tooth until William began to receive bulletins about an invasion from outer space.

A small blue seed grows so big that it fills up all the space above the earth.

Each time the little lion opens his mouth, he roars, and each roar causes something around him to disappear.

The talking blue moose attempts to unravel the riddle of the Moospire, a vampire moose that reportedly lurks near the town of Yellow Tooth.

The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior.

A small boy experiencing the night terrors faces the monsters and things that go bump in the night before finding refuge in his parents'' bed.

Depuis qu''un élan bleu a débarqué dans le restaurant de M. Breton pour lui proposer son aide, celui-ci ne sait plus où donner de la tête : les clients viennent en hordes voir le spectacle... et se régaler de sa fameuse soupe aux chipirons ! M. Breton est ravi... jusqu''au jour où l''élan bleu déniche une vieille machine à écrire et décide de rédiger ses mémoires. Qu''a-t-il donc de si extraordinaire à raconter ?