Daniel Pinkwater

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  • Bibliography:
    97 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Irving and Muktuk

1 - Two Bad Bears (Sep-2003)
2 - Bad Bears in the Big City (Apr-2004)
3 - Bad Bear Detectives (Aug-2006)
4 - Bad Bears Go Visiting (Apr-2007)

Melvinge of the Megaverse

2 - Night of the Living Rat (Apr-1992)

Mrs. Noodlekugel

1 - Mrs. Noodlekugel (Apr-2012)
2 - Mrs. Noodlekugel and Four Blind Mice (Sep-2013)
3 - Mrs. Noodlekugel and Drooly the Bear (May-2015)

Mush

Mush, a Dog From Space (Jul-2002)
Mush's Jazz Adventure (Nov-2002)

Werewolf Club

1 - The Magic Pretzel (Jun-2000)
2 - The Lunchroom of Doom (Oct-2000)
3 - The Werewolf Club Meets Dorkula (Jun-2001)
4 - The Werewolf Club Meets the Hound of the Basketballs (Oct-2001)
5 - The Werewolf Club Meets Oliver Twit (Feb-2002)

Book List in Order: 97 titles

  • Lizard Music

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    SLITHERING LIZARDS! When his parents go away for two weeks, Victor goes on his own vacation -- right at home. Now he can order pizza with anchovies! And stay up as late as he wants and watch his favorite television show! After the late, late show...

  • The Big Orange Splot

    When Mr. Plumbeans'' house is splashed with bright orange paint, he decides a multi-colored house would be a nice change. This favorite story of creativity and individuality is back by popular demand. Full color....

  • Return of the Mouse

  • Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars

    Leonard Neeble, a short and portly kid with glasses, is an outcast at Bat Masterson Junior High, but then Mendelsohn turns up and introduces him to the Klugarsh Mind Control Course, hyperstellar archaeology, the Bermuda Triangle Chili-Parlor, and a n...

  • Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario

    While visiting Rochester, New York, young Eugene meets the strange Professor Ambrose McFwain and goes out with him in his boat to search for a mysterious sea monster that has been sighted on Lake Ontario....

  • Fat Men from Space

    "While William is held captive in a spaceship, alien armies land and wipe out the earth's supply of junk foods. The boy escapes and humans learn to like what the departing scavengers have left: wholegrain bread, milk, greens, all the healthful foods....

  • The Worms of Kukumlima

  • The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

  • Slaves of Spiegel

    Upon descending on Hoboken's most exclusive restaurant, The Magic Moscow, and tasting chef Steve Nickleson's culinary masterpiece, the sugar vampires instantly decide Steve must be Earth's contestant in an intergalactic cooking contest. So they kidna...



  • Devil in the Drain

  • Jolly Roger

  • I Was a Second-Grade Werewolf

  • Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror

  • Roger's Umbrella

  • The Muffin Fiend

  • Moosepire

  • Frankenbagel Monster

  • The Wuggie Norple Story

  • Aunt Lulu



  • Guys from Space

  • Fish Whistle

  • Uncle Melvin

  • Blue Moose

  • Tooth-Gnasher Superflash

  • Borgel

  • Doodle Flute

  • Young Adults

    A non-conforming group of high school boys decides to transform themselves into an artistic phenomenon, the Wild DaDa Ducks, but they find it difficult to get the recognition they desire, since no one understands what they're doing...

  • Wempires

  • Wingman



  • Night of the Living Rat

    Melvinge of the Megaverse - 2

  • The Phantom of the Lunch Wagon

    Chris Kevin-Keith fixes up the old boarded-up streetcar on West Cheddar Street as a restaurant, but soon the Jolly Trolley Restaurant is plagued by a mysterious, scary phantom. By the author of Doodle Flute. ...

  • The Moose Tales

  • Author's Day

  • The Magic Moscow

  • Blue Moose and Return of the Moose

  • Spaceburger

  • Ned Feldman, Space Pirate

    Ned Feldman joins Lumpy Lugo, a.k.a. Captain Bugbeard the Pirate, on a fun-filled, action-packed journey into outer space aboard a kitchen-sink spaceship and through a perilous encounter with dangerous space chickens....

  • The Afterlife Diet

    In a heaven reserved for the obese, Milton Green, a second-rate editor who died under mysterious circumstances, ponders his life, his romance with an equally obese woman, and the conditions of his demise...

  • Attila the Pun

    Conjuring up the zany ghost of Attila the Pun, Steve Nickelson and Norman Bleistift are soon overwhelmed by his endless supply of groan-inducing riddles and enlist the help of mystic seer Lamon Penumbra. Reprint....



  • Wallpaper From Space

    Steve hadn't liked it when his mom had started changing everything at home. She had gotten rid of his table and chair, and hadn't even asked him if he wanted his bathroom stool. But the new spaceship wallpaper in Steve's room was...well, fantastic. W...

  • Magic Goose

    Seymour loves to read, especially about magical things. One of his favorite books is about a boy who meets a magic visitor. More than anything, Seymour wishes that something magical could happen to him. Then one night magic does happen. Though a s...

  • Second-Grade Ape

  • Bongo Larry

  • Wolf Christmas

  • Ice Cream Larry

  • Rainy Morning

    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....

  • Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle

  • Big Bob and the Thanksgiving Potatoes

  • Big Bob and the Magic Valentine's Day Potato

    When Big Bob, Big Gloria, Tina Tiny, and Billy Thimble come up with the best Valentine's Day project for class, they receive a visit from the Magic Valentine's Day Potato as their sweet reward. Original....



  • The Magic Pretzel

    Werewolf Club - 1
    Ready-for-Chapters

    What's salty and cures werewolves? There's only one way to cure a werewolf and that's to eat Alexander the Great's Magic Pretzel. You knew that, right? So, that's what Norman and his werewolf friends at the Watson Elementary School try to find, wi...

  • The Lunchroom of Doom

    Werewolf Club - 2
    Ready-for-Chapters

    Where is one place you don't want to go alone? Remember Werewolf Club members Ralf Alfa, Billy Furball, Lucy Fang, and Norman Gnormal? Well, they are back. Now they wreak havoc on a local restaurant they call "The Lunchroom of Doom." Tomato cat...

  • Fat Camp Commandos

    Mountainburg. Home of fortune-telling chickens, the infamous Tator Family, and Camp Noo Yoo. Yes, Camp Noo Yoo, where frantic parents send their pudgy little darlings in hopes that a diet of shredded carrots with raisins will turn them into pre-adole...

  • The Werewolf Club Meets Dorkula

    Werewolf Club - 3
    Ready-for-Chapters

    Just when you thought it was safe... Here comes Dorkula. Who is he and what does he want? Is this the vampire of ancient legend and bad late-night movies? Being in the Werewolf Club has never been so much fun! Just ask Ralf Alfa, Billy Furball,...

  • The Werewolf Club Meets the Hound of the Basketballs

    Werewolf Club - 4
    Ready-for-Chapters

    What's small and round and smells like knackwurst, and is very, very scary? The Werewolf Club is about to find out! After a stop at the Local Yokel Diner to eat jitterbugs (you don't want to know), the young werewolves are off to Basketball Hall, ...

  • Big Bob and the Winter Holiday Potato

  • The Werewolf Club Meets Oliver Twit

    Werewolf Club - 5
    Ready-for-Chapters

    Would you buy a used time machine from this man? 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...

  • Fat Camp Commandos Go West

    In this sequal to Fat Camp Commandos, the fat-camp dropouts are back--ready to raise a ruckus at a western dude ranch!

    It's not enough that Ralph and Sylvia Nebula along with their dear friends, Celtic and Mavis Goldfarb have absconded from fa...

  • Cone Kong

    In a humorous retelling of a classic movie, Daniel Pinkwater presents CONE KONG, the story of an ice-cream cone of spectacular size.

    Captain Charles Handsome has captured an ice-cream cone of unusual size to display in the Big City. But Cone K...

  • Mush, a Dog From Space

    Mush
    Ready-for-Chapters

    LASSIE, GO HOME -- MUSH IS HERE! Now that Kelly Mangiaro's family has moved out of their apartment into a house, she figures her parents will finally let her get a dog. Instead, her mother gets a job, and Kelly gets a baby-sitter. Then Kelly...

  • Big Bob and the Halloween Potatoes

    Big Bob and Big Gloria are back in this totally a-peel-ing easy-to-read story!

    Mr. Salami, formerly a cowboy, announces to his second-grade class that they will be cutting out pumpkins to decorate the classroom for Halloween. Big Gloria object...

  • Mush's Jazz Adventure

    Mush
    Ready-for-Chapters

    Now that Mush -- the talking, cooking, educated dog from space -- is part of the Mangiaro household, Kelly wants to know more about the planet Growf-Woof-Woof, and how her dog came to Earth. When the two of them go on a picnic, (which Kelly prepares ...

  • The Picture of Morty and Ray

    A classic horror movie on TV inspires Morty and Ray to paint a picture of themselves for all the wrong reasons. You may be tempted to cry out, "Stop!" But the boys are having too much fun to listen.

    Bubbling with questions of pickle juice an...

  • Two Bad Bears

    Irving and Muktuk - 1

    When two devious polar bears make yet another attempt at stealing the muffins and ruining the New Year's Blueberry Muffin Festival, Yellowtooth's Officer Bunny must stay on top of the situation in order to put a stop to their plans. Reprint....

  • Bad Bears in the Big City

    Irving and Muktuk - 2

    Irving and Muktuk, two muffin-eating polar bears from the frozen north, have some trouble fitting into life at the zoo in Bayonne, New Jersey, so they decide to explore life outside the walls of the zoo....

  • Young Larry

    Hide your blueberry muffins!Meet Larry. He’s an average polar bear from the Arctic who just happens to take a snooze on an ice floe. When he wakes up, he is in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded at the shore, Larry gets a job as a lifeguard and uses ...

  • Looking for Bobowicz

    When Nick moved from the leafy suburbs to muggy, urban Hoboken and his bike was stolen, he wasn't pleased.

    Then he found

    • a place where he could listen to pirate radio
    • friends with a stack of Classics Comics
    • newspaper reports ab...

  • Bad Bears and a Bunny

  • The Artsy Smartsy Club

    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 Henri...

  • The Education of Robert Nifkin

    The Education of Robert Nifkin is the education of a beatnik. Set in 1950s Chicago and conveyed in the form of a college essay, Robert Nifkin details his journey from a mind-numbing high school that smells to the curriculum-free carnival of a private...

  • Dancing Larry

    The Pinkwaters' lovable bear, Larry, is back! He still likes blueberry muffins. He still works as a lifeguard at the Hotel Larry in New Jersey. He still lives with the Frobisher family. And his brother, Roy, still works at the zoo. In this latest sto...

  • Bad Bear Detectives

    Irving and Muktuk - 3

    When a shipment of imported Italian muffins goes missing, Irving and Muktuk become the key suspects. Everyone knows their weakness for muffins and immediately think they are responsible!

    Irving and Muktuk realize that in order to clear their s...

  • Bad Bears Go Visiting

    Irving and Muktuk - 4

  • The Neddiad

    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 Wentworth...

  • Yo-Yo Man

    It is the first day of school. The first day of third grade. Between Mrs. Mousetrap's miserable spelling tests and the arm-twisting antics of smelly, candy-sucking Richard Newton, it's already looking ugly.

    Then comes recess -- and Ramon...

  • The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

    SOMETHING'S FOWL IN HOBOKEN.
    When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266 pound chicken with a mind of her own. Feathers fly when this colossal clucker descends upon ...

  • Sleepover Larry

    Larry is a polar bear with style. He likes blueberry muffins, enjoys dancing ballet, and takes pride in his job as a lifeguard. He lives with the Frobisher family in the hotel that they named after him. One day, Larry invites his bear friends from th...

  • At the Hotel Larry

    Larry the polar bear loves living at the Hotel Larry. He gets to spend time with his friends, and he has a great job as a lifeguard (although very few guests use the pool!). On his days off, Larry puts on his human disguise and goes out for blueberry...

  • Bear's Picture

    A bear wants to paint a picture, and so he does; however, two fine, proper gentlemen don’t think that it is a very fine picture at all. But just because they don’t see what the bear sees doesn’t make it a bad picture, right? Daniel Pinkwater tu...

  • The Yggyssey

    A sequel to critically acclaimed THE NEDDIAD told from the point of view of Ned's friend, IggyLa Brea Woman is missing. Valentino, too. The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left!Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this...

  • Once Upon a Blue Moose

    Once upon a blue moose, there was a little restaurant at the edge of the big woods. Mr. Breton was happy running the restaurant. He liked to cook, but he didn’t like it much when winter came and the north wind blew and froze everything solid. Then ...

  • Adventures of a Cat-whiskered Girl

    Big Audrey is a girl . . .with cat's whiskers . . .and sort of cat's eyes. But is there another catwhiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl? The hilarious story that began withThe Neddiadand continued in TheYggysseycomes to its wacky conclusion -- sort ...

  • Beautiful Yetta

    Yetta, beautiful Yetta, manages to escape from the butcher's shop. But now she is lost in Brooklyn--a strange place filled with rude rats and dangerous buses geVAHLT Oh, dear But then, brave Yetta saves a small green bird from a sneaky ca...

  • I Am the Dog

    Jacob is the boy. Max is the dog. Until they decide to change places. Now Jacob gets to eat kibble, chase squirrels, and snooze, just like a real dog. Max brushes his teeth, goes to school, and plays video games, just like a real boy. The...

  • Mrs. Noodlekugel

    Mrs. Noodlekugel - 1

    With signature wit and whimsy, the inimitable Daniel Pinkwater introduces an eccentric, endearing babysitter every child will wish they could have. Nick and Maxine live in a tall building with one apartment on top of another. So when they look out...

  • Bear in Love

    Could the bear have a secret friend? Who is leaving him surprises? The ever-lovable Daniel Pinkwater spins a funny and sweetly offbeat story. One morning, the bear finds something just outside his cave. It is orange and long and pointy and has bus...

  • Bushman Lives!

    Is Bushman the gorilla alive? According to the papers, he died a long time ago. Why is he so important to the high school senior and aspiring Great Artist Harold Knishke? It’s a hot summer in 1960s Chicago, and people are on the streets late at nig...

  • Mrs. Noodlekugel and Four Blind Mice

    Mrs. Noodlekugel - 2

    Four farsighted mice get glasses -- and a talking cat solves a family mystery -- as the charmingly eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel returns. When Mrs. Noodlekugel’s four mice make a terrible mess with cookie crumbs at tea, she decides to take them...

  • Beautiful Yetta's Hanukkah Kitten

    Yetta, beautiful Yetta, manages to escape from the butcher's shop. But now she is lost in Brooklyn―a strange place filled with rude rats and dangerous buses! !?????? geVAHLT! Oh, dear! But then, brave Yetta saves a small green bird from...

  • Mrs. Noodlekugel and Drooly the Bear

    Mrs. Noodlekugel - 3

    In a wonderfully loopy third episode, Nick and Maxine are surprised to meet Captain Noodlekugel, back from the sea with a somewhat untrainable bear. When their father decides to compete to be speed-knitting champion of the world, Nick and Maxine a...

  • Bear and Bunny

    From the inimitable Daniel Pinkwater comes a funny and disarmingly sweet tale of two forest friends musing on the nature of a good pet. The bear and the bunny are friends who like to wander in the woods, look for things to eat, sing songs, and tal...

  • Four Hoboken Stories

    "Daniel Pinkwater is so obviously the funniest writer of children's books that he should be made a Living National Treasure," declared The Washington Post Book World. Young readers can join Pinkwater on a rollicking visit to his beloved New Jersey me...

  • Four Different Stories

    "From [Daniel] Pinkwater we expect the pure wackiness of a mind given to bizarre bolts of imagination," declared Publishers Weekly. These four different stories -- collected for the very first time -- abound in hilarious situations and characters...

  • Adventures of a Dwergish Girl

    “I loved it. Gloriously strange, funny, sensible.” -- Neil Gaiman Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) returns in classic form with the illustrated, middle-grade adventures of one young Molly O’Malley: a dwarf (...

  • Vampires of Blinsh

    This witty picture book from children’s luminary Daniel Pinkwater and Aaron Renier offers an insider’s look that will make you completely abandon everything you thought you knew about vampires!   Welcome to the village of Blinsh, Pinksylvani...

  • Kat Hats

    Kat Hats is a wild picture book starring a world-renowned cat, his trainer, and a cast of quirky characters from award-winning creators Daniel Pinkwater and Aaron Renier.   Thermal Herman 6-7/8 is the top Kat Hat in Matt Katz’s company. A trai...

  • Crazy in Poughkeepsie

    The inimitable Daniel Pinkwater (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) brings his zany wit and wisdom to a gentle middle-grade adventure following a kid’s off-the-beaten-path journey, featuring an unfocused spiritual guide, a not-quite-dwarf, a graffiti ...

  • Jules, Penny & The Rooster

    Internationally-bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater (The Big Orange Splot) brings his zany wit and wisdom to the magical adventures of a clever girl and her brave dog. Told with warmth and wit, this is a delightful exploration of growing up, the powe...

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Daniel Pinkwater has published 97 books.

The next book by Daniel Pinkwater, Jules, Penny & The Rooster, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Daniel Pinkwater, Lizard Music, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Daniel Pinkwater has 5 series.
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