![]() Pinkwater's sparse prose perfectly captures our young protagonist's perspective as he explores 1940s Los Angeles, hobnobs with movie stars, ghosts, and a Navajo shaman- and ends up saving the world. ![]() ![]() This tale treads some of the same ground as Neil Gaiman's American Gods and even Stephen King's Dark Tower series. This is magically realistic urban fantasy told with Pinkwater's trademark oddness and charm. "I love Daniel Pinkwater's children's books, particularly the Bad Bears titles (who can't love two blueberry-muffin stealing polar bears called Irving and Muktuk?) so I was intrigued by this novel-length adventure. 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. ![]() Daniel Pinkwater, renowned for making young readers grin and chuckle, creates an imaginative odyssey into 1950s childhood nostalgia in The Neddiad. ![]()
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