"I grew up in Chicago, was taken away to Los Angeles for a number of years, and then reprieved back to Chicago. Upon my return I experienced a tremendous feeling of rising up, of getting back to a real place, and that excitement never wore off. When I la...

Daniel Pinkwater is a prolific and popular author and illustrator who is celebrated as a particularly original, imaginative, and versatile contributor to literature for children and young adults. Renowned as a humorist and satirist, Pinkwater creates unu...