Daniel Manus Pinkwater
4) Lizard music
Author
Publisher
Dodd Mead
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little known invasion from outer space.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.
8) Blue moose
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
A man who runs a restaurant on the edge of the big north woods meets a talking blue moose that moves in and spends the winter serving as head waiter.
12) Ice cream Larry
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
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."
13) Bear's picture
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2008, c1972
Language
English
Description
A bear continues to paint what he likes despite the criticism of two passing gentlemen who believe that bears cannot be artists.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.
15) Wolf Christmas
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
On the longest night of the year, a family of wolves takes a run through the woods to see the unusual sight of a human family's Christmas celebration.
17) Aunt Lulu
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Tired of working as a librarian in Alaska, Aunt Lulu takes her sled and her fourteen Huskies and moves to Parsippany, New Jersey.
19) Rainy morning
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Yo-yo man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Third grade improves dramatically for a boy after he makes up his mind to win the upcoming yo-yo tournament.
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