Beautiful Yetta -- Boing Boing reviewed

Doctorow choked down tears at several points during his presentation, which covered his path to becoming a young adult writer—something he said was inextricably entwined with his being a young adult reader. His early experiences with storytelling included his father’s kid-friendly, socialist reinterpretations of Conan the Barbarian, reading Daniel Pinkwater, and seeing Star Wars on the big screen. “I had never seen a story as complex as Star Wars before,” he said, recalling that he took to writing the story of Star Wars over and over, “like a piano player practicing scales.”

Pinkwater recommends kids read some adult books

The Neddiad reminded me of...

Ten Favorite Children's Books -- and two of them are Pinkwater