other childrens literature

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Tyler Hewitt <tahewitt at y...> 
wrote:> For completely different reasons, I love Daniel
> Pinkwater. His books are hysterically funny, full of
> puns, wordplay and absurd plot twists. Often a serious
> message lurks behind all the tomfoolery, but Pinkwater
> never lets on to this. He has a big cult following
> among adults, I wouldent be surprised if more adults
> than kids read his work.

I haven't read any of Daniel Pinkwater's books, but his excellent 
story "The Blue Moose" appears in a wonderful anthology called "You 
Read to Me and I'll Read to You." The stories in there are wonderful 
and most of them are short enough to be one-shot bedtime stories. (Of 
course my daughter is used to listening to 20+ pages of HP per night 
so we only use these stories now for nights when she's too tired to 
listen to that many pages.)

> 
> William Steig also writes great children's books. My
> favorite of his is Dominic, a very moving story about
> a donkey who has adventures and lears a lot about life
> in the process.
> 

I believe William Steig also wrote the story Amos and Boris, about 
the friendship between a mouse and a whale. This also appears in You 
Read to Me and I'll Read to You.

Anne U
(excited that my soon-to-be 2nd grader wants to read EVERYTHING she 
sees now!!)