The Neddiad, Daniel Pinkwater
The Neddiad, Daniel Pinkwater
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The Neddiad
How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization

Author: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrator: Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/10/2008

Synopsis

Daniel Pinkwater, renowned for making young readers grin and chuckle, creates an imaginative odyssey into 1950s childhood nostalgia in The Neddiad. When young Neddie Wentworthstein is accidentally left behind by his family at a train stop in the Wild West, he suddenly finds himself at the center of a whirlwind adventure involving sinister villains and extraordinary new allies-all seeming to revolve around a little jade turtle given to him by a mysterious shaman.

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 Suanne

One million stars. Everything I love in a book.......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I picked this off the local library's for sale shelf to read as I wait endlessly for Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" to arrive via inter-library loan. This is a kid's book, about on the level with "Max the Mighty." Because of this I can't give it anything more than a 3* rating, but it is fairly amusing.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie Jo

Buy this book now. Buy 6, 1 for you and 5 for your friends. It's that good. So enjoyable. It makes you want to be a kid again!......more

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