(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Calef Brown. Harold and Geets are friends trying to find their way in the world. We follow their stories antiphonally (although it's more like scramble to keep up). There is a huge cast and many things happen, but there's no discernible narrative arc. It's all about being inside Pinkwater's head, a congenial hang-out for some readers, judging by comments on the online version.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Calef Brown. Selected by Daniel Pinkwater. Two admirers of Lear--Pinkwater and Brown--pay homage to the sultan of silliness in this oversized collection of ten poems. A brief introduction to the poet sets the stage for the nonsense verse, including "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "The Quangle Wangle's Hat." Illustrations with a folk-art quality are saturated with color and reveal an imagination as ebullient and expansive as Lear's.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Calef Brown. Pinkwater follows Big Audrey, the cat-whiskered girl (The Neddiad, The Yggyssey) to Poughkeepsie. She makes new friends and solves a mystery of a girl who looks exactly like her. Pinkwater's complex setup for his punch line is vintage. He still teases us with a barrage of references, but the tone of this offering is less hectic and more wistful than its predecessors.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2010

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Calef Brown. Iggy (The Neddiad) and her friends head off to other planes to find some missing phantoms. The experience of this wacky, allusive, hilarious, indefatigable adventure in sixty-nine chapters recalls Joseph Campbell, a selection of children's literature, classic standup, and 1940s American pop culture. Nobody does this kind of witty confection better than Pinkwater, the original point-and-click mind.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2009

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Calef Brown. In this look at the American-expat avant-garde writer, Winter mimics Stein's style--repetitious, rhythmic, sometimes nonsensical. The text touches on her life and famous friends ("It's Henri Matisse with a beard beneath his teeth"). The acrylic illustrations, spare in composition, are sumptuous in shading. It's a clever exercise, but young readers might lose patience with the book's abstractions.

Reviewer: Nell Beram