The Snarkout Boys the Avocado of De..., Daniel Pinkwater
The Snarkout Boys the Avocado of De..., Daniel Pinkwater
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The Snarkout Boys & the Avocado of Death

Author: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrator: Daniel Pinkwater

Unabridged: 3 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/1995

Synopsis

Combine a crime, a criminal, a fat man in a fez, and a guy named "Chicken Man," and you get a zany sci-fi adventure that defies gravity. As Wizard of Comedy Daniel M. Pinkwater transports the Snarkout Boys and the Rat through the tunnel under North Aufzoo Street to the warmth of Beanbenders, you'll meet some strange characters and learn much about the versatile avocado. The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death is a sci-fi mystery adventure that seems like a dream— but no one is sleeping!

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 Emily

It's uncommon for a Daniel Pinkwater fan to run into another fan by chance. We end up finding each other in unlikely situations, and having lived our lives feeling like we're the only ones to have had the good fortune to have these stories in our lives, we feel as though Pinkwater is writing the sto......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I loved loved loved Pinkwater as a kid, and after rescuing 5 Novels from my childhood bookshelf and deciding that I needed a break, I went back for a reread. And you know what, Pinkwater still holds up as an absurdist delight. His protagonists are deeply uncool short fat weirdos, embedded in mediocr......more

Goodreads review by Rose

Generously imagined, zany titles for each of these five novels... With Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars the rollicking ride begins: An amusement park between covers, these five novels, each one uniquely-unique: For a sample, here's a quote from Page 451. (My para spacing is added for clarity here o......more

Goodreads review by amy e.

This book (or the novellas within) make me happy to be alive but a little sad I was not during the 70's/early eighties when these stories were written. When it was more "normal" for a pre-teen kid to ride a bus around the city by herself or wander into record stores and taco joints instead of being......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

Daniel Pinkwater writes in short, clear sentences. He is very funny. His books are full of references to Alfred Jarry, the Beats, and his own childhood. You don't have to get these references to enjoy his books, so it's fun to read them when you're in junior high. When you reread his books as an adu......more

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