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The agony and the eggplant : Daniel Pinkwater's heroic struggles in the name of YA literature
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"The Agony and the Eggplant is the first book-length study of Daniel Pinkwater - author, illustrator, and radio personality. Pinkwater began writing and illustrating children's books in 1970 and ha...
"The Agony and the Eggplant is the first book-length study of Daniel Pinkwater - author, illustrator, and radio personality. Pinkwater began writing and illustrating children's books in 1970 and has been a prolific author ever since. He has written over seventy books altogether, including more than fifty picture books, a dozen books for middle-grade or intermediate readers, several for adolescents, a novel, and various nonfiction works."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Walter Hogan
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001
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- xii, 159 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810839946, 0810839946
- OCLC
- ocm45413665
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index.
- Life of the master -- Three decades of fabulous picture books -- Seven stories -- Four expeditions -- Alan Mendelsohn, the boy from Mars -- Snarkout boys and the avocado of death -- Snarkout boys and the baconburg horror -- Young adult novel -- Young adults -- Education of Robert Nifkin -- Menippus, Keats, Pinkwater, and the "Big A"