Adventures of a Dwergish Girl

Name: Adventures of a Dwergish Girl
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Daniel Pinkwater
ISBN: 9798765036440

Author: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrator: Aaron Lockman

Unabridged: 2 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/25/2022

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) returns in classic form with the middle-grade adventures of one young Molly O'Malley: a dwarf (well, dwarf-ish) girl who just won't settle for a boring life in the Catskills.

Molly O'Malley is a clever, adventurous girl. She is also a Dwerg. Dwergs are strange folks who live very quietly in the Catskill mountains, have lots of gold, and are kind of like dwarves (but also not!).

Molly isn't interested in cooking and weaving, as she is expected to be. So, she sets off to see the world for herself. Which means a new job, a trip to New York City, prowling gangsters, an adorable king, a city witch, and many historical ghosts. More importantly, it means excellent pizza, new friends, and very quick thinking.

Now someone is pursuing the Dwergs for their gold. Can Molly O'Malley save the day?

About Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Pinkwater is the author and sometimes illustrator of over eighty (and counting) wildly popular books, including The Neddiad, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. He has also illustrated many of his own books, although for more recent works that task has passed to his wife, illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater. Pinkwater is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and appears regularly on WeekendEdition Saturday, where he reviews kids' books with host Scott Simon. Pinkwater also contributes to Wondertime, and has in the past been spotted on the pages of the New York Times Magazine, OMNI, and many other publications.

Pinkwater lives with his wife and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York's Hudson River.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosh

Adventures of a Dwergish girl by Daniel Pinkwater: a review Genre: Children's fiction With thanks to NetGalley and Tachyon Publications for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest feedback. When I was just learning to cook, I had once tried making a lettuce salad using varied ingredients. Its flav......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

Pinkwater doing what he does best: humorous, fantastical adventure, with plenty of descriptions of mouthwatering food! My kids were utterly delighted by this, and I realized that it has been so long since I read them Lizard Music and The Last Guru that they've forgotten the sheer bonkers awesomeness......more

Goodreads review by Pop

A Top Notch Pinkwater Heroine Pinkwater writes great characters, but many of his narrators and central characters are boys. Robert Nifkin, Arthur Bobowicz, Alan Mendelsohn, Neddie Wentworthstein, Walter and Winston - the list goes on. He sometimes gives us strong girl sidekicks, (the Cat-Whiskered gi......more