Borgel

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Summary: Never bet on an eggplant
Review: This is a fun, light story reccomended for children of all ages, and for parents looking for a decent laugh.
The narrator's insane foreign uncle shows up at his door (He could be Norwegian, because of his dog's name or the sort of tea he likes to drink, but he also has a vaguely Yiddish accent in the audio edition I'm familiar with, and tells stories that sound vaguely like Aesop's fables) and trains the narrator as a time tourist, a person capable of traveling through space and time, and the narrator tells of a series of madcap adventures (Think "Pinocchio","Hitchhiker's guide", or "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen") through outer space, having a dog swear at him,watching an energy being looking for planets to devour, or watching his uncle zapped into another time.
The way Pinkwater reads aloud his books, the characters all talk differently but you can still understand what they're saying.
Great fun for the whole family.

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Summary: A deeply amusing and entertaining book
Review: This is one of Pinkwater's greatest books. I am especially fond of the fables from the Old Country ("Moral: Animals are stupid"). I have read this book twice to my son. The first time I read it to him he was three; it was his very first chapter book and he absolutely loved it. He wants Daniel Pinkwater to write another Borgel book. So do I.

Rating:
Summary: A deeply amusing and entertaining book
Review: This is one of Pinkwater's greatest books. I am especially fond of the fables from the Old Country ("Moral: Animals are stupid"). I have read this book twice to my son. The first time I read it to him he was three; it was his very first chapter book and he absolutely loved it. He wants Daniel Pinkwater to write another Borgel book. So do I.

Rating:
Summary: Never bet on an eggplant
Review: Whenever I read any of Mr. Pinkwater's books I am amazed at the range and intelligience of this humorist.
"Borgel" has become one of my favorites. From the first chapter I was hooked. The arrival of Borgel ,a flaky, casual genius, to the home of Melvin and his family is like a spark to dry wood. The world that "Uncle Borgel" takes his "Nephew" is fantastic but oddly comparable to our own (though I don't believe you'll be able to get any french fried meteorites in your local McDonald's).
This story moves along with a series of events that keeps one's mind sparked and one's lips twitching with laughter.
Mr. Pinkwater's "Borgel" flows like melted popsicles.

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Summary: The Borgel Experience
Review: Whenever I read any of Mr. Pinkwater's books I am amazed at the range and intelligience of this humorist.
"Borgel" has become one of my favorites. From the first chapter I was hooked. The arrival of Borgel ,a flaky, casual genius, to the home of Melvin and his family is like a spark to dry wood. The world that "Uncle Borgel" takes his "Nephew" is fantastic but oddly comparable to our own (though I don't believe you'll be able to get any french fried meteorites in your local McDonald's).
This story moves along with a series of events that keeps one's mind sparked and one's lips twitching with laughter.
Mr. Pinkwater's "Borgel" flows like melted popsicles.