New Releases by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

A trained cat who is able to form himself into specialty hats, Thermal Herman is world-renowned for his warmth and agility, but when a friend wanders off with a brain freeze and finds themself in peril, Thermal Herman must rush in to save the day.

Best friends Bear and Bunny wander through the woods looking for food, singing songs, and talking about what kind of pet they might like to adopt.

One morning, the bear finds something just outside his cave. It is orange and long and pointy and has bushy green leaves at one end. And it''s sweet and crunchy Where did it come from? Did someone leave it for him? Then, the next morning, there are two more of the sweet crunchy things The bear knows that someone is leaving him these treats.

Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.

Another Pinkwaterpalooza, jam-packed with off-beat characters and wild happenings for a one-of-a-kind coming of age adventure!

Depuis qu''un élan bleu a débarqué dans le restaurant de M. Breton pour lui proposer son aide, celui-ci ne sait plus où donner de la tête : les clients viennent en hordes voir le spectacle... et se régaler de sa fameuse soupe aux chipirons ! M. Breton est ravi... jusqu''au jour où l''élan bleu déniche une vieille machine à écrire et décide de rédiger ses mémoires. Qu''a-t-il donc de si extraordinaire à raconter ?

Big Audrey, who has cat-like whiskers, and her telephathic friend Molly set out on a journey to find out why flying saucers are landing behind the old stone barn in Poughkeepsie, New York, and, more importantly, to determine whether another cat-whiskeredgirl really exists.

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 one day a blue moose, who also didn’t like the cold, came to his door and asked to come in. Mr. Breton said sure, and served the moose some clam chowder. The moose liked the soup, and decided to stay. From that time on, things at the restaurant began to hum. Join the Blue Moose in this hilarious collection of three short novels as he learns to wait tables, writes a novel, goes to Hollywood, solves a mystery, and makes you laugh even in the dark of the cold woods. Includes new wacky but true moose facts! From the Trade Paperback edition.

In this sequel to "The Neddiad," the ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left. Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, no matter what Neddie Wentworthstein and Seamus Finn say. Illustrations.

Bear is happily painting a picture when two fine, proper gentlemen approach and begin critiquing his work. But Bear knows that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the only person that his picture needs to impress is himself.

Third grade improves dramatically for a boy after he makes up his mind to win the upcoming yo-yo tournament.

Young Neddie goes on a life-changing and epic journey in this original and hilarious story in which Neddie, three good friends, a shaman, a ghost, and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

Irving and Muktuk are cheating each other at cards when their polar bear friend Larry drops by for a visit. The bears eat cake topped with little fishes that Larry has brought, play a spirited game of volleyball, and afterward chat pleasantly until Larry goes home. "Visits," Irving and Muktuk decide, "are nice." The next evening, when all is quiet at the zoo, the Bad Bears sneak out to pay a refined visit of their own. When they arrive at the home of the Beachball family, things--as usual for the baffled bruins--get out of hand.

After little Mildred Frobisher has a sleepover at the hotel where she lives with her parents and Larry the polar bear, Larry decides that he too would like to host a sleepover for his friends.

Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, a boy convinces his two new friends to help him track down the mysterious phantom who stole his bicycle, as well as Arthur Bobowicz, owner of a giant chicken that once terrorized local citizens.

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 smirched names, they have to find the culprit themselves. They disguise themselves, sniff out some clues, interview possible witnesses, and try to find the thief. As with all good mysteries, the clues lead to a surprise ending.

After hearing strict Madame Swoboda''s admonition that "bears have no place in ballet" Larry the lovable polar bear and his friends at the zoo ask little Mildred Frobisher to teach them ballet so they can "tell a story and express feelings through movement" because all polar bears dance. That''s what polar bears do.

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 Henrietta, Nick''s 266-pound chicken, how to juggle marshmallows, they''re ready for something -- anything -- to happen. When a mysterious and brilliant chalk artist starts decorating Hoboken''s streets, the three friends are blown away. They set off to explore the art world in a frenzy of adventurous drawing, screeving, and eggplant picnics.

Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school experiences in the form of a college application essay.

Popular polar bears Irving and Muktuk are back, and this time they are invited to a party by their friend Roy. But can these troublemakers be trusted outside the zoo? Full color.

Larry eats 250 pounds of ice cream

A young girl and Larry, the polar bear who lives in her father''s hotel, enjoy each other''s company and, on an outing to the zoo, they discover Larry''s brother Roy.

Larry the polar bear has gone bohemian. He plays bongos, writes poetry, and wears a beret and sunglasses.

Two muffin-loving polar bears make a yearly attempt to use stealth and subterfuge to get muffins at the Yellowtooth Blueberry Muffin Festival.

Irving and Muktuk, two muffin-eating polar bears from the frozen north, have some trouble fitting into life at the zoo in Bayone, New Jersey.

A guide to buying, training, and caring for a dog, with special emphasis on understanding its personality, feelings, and reactions to new situations.

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 a tad difficult to buy the 212 double-A batteries they need for the machine to get them home.

Mush, a dog from the planet Growf-Woof-Woof, relates how she came to be on Earth, and how she and three other animals formed a jazz ensemble that foiled a band of ice cream parlor robbers.

The first adventure of the Fat Camp Commandos is now in paperback. Fed up with the abuse at Camp Noo Yoo, where their parents sent them to lose a few socially unacceptable pounds, the Commandos head back home to seek revenge.