Comments for Berger & Burger http://riddleburger.wordpress.com The blog of kidlit authors Tom Angleberger & Sam Riddleburger Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on New evidence for my Pickwick Papers = Lord of the Rings theory… by Mary Lee http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/new-evidence-for-my-pickwick-papers-lord-of-the-rings-theory/#comment-3925 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:01:56 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/?p=2658#comment-3925 Tom,

Greetings! Not sure if you handle your own author visit stuff, but I’m
going to give it a go.

I am in charge of hiring the authors for the Dublin Literacy Conference, a medium-sized (500-800 participants) conference hosted by our school district.

Your fan since Qwikpick days,
Mary Lee
mlhahn at earthlink dot net

]]> Comment on New evidence for my Pickwick Papers = Lord of the Rings theory… by wken http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/new-evidence-for-my-pickwick-papers-lord-of-the-rings-theory/#comment-3886 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:04:42 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/?p=2658#comment-3886 Dickens, Tolkien, and Chesterton … this might be my favorite blog post EVER!

I like the theory … I’d never thought about it. I think I’ll use this as an excuse to reread Pickwick. It’s been a long time.

By the way, at Logan Airport in Boston yesterday I saw a woman reading “Origami Yoda” to her son, who looked to be about 8. Beside them on the seats was a girl about 10-ish, reading “Darth Paper.”

]]> Comment on How I got the good news… by Tom Angleberger http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/how-i-got-the-good-news/#comment-3885 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:03:53 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/how-i-got-the-good-news/#comment-3885 tom@origamiyoda.com

And my website is
origamiyoda.com

]]> Comment on How I got the good news… by Mlhaautit http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/how-i-got-the-good-news/#comment-3883 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:30:21 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/how-i-got-the-good-news/#comment-3883 What is Tom Angleberger’s e-mail?

]]> Comment on News from Tom (Sam still news-less) by secret helper http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/news-from-tom-sam-still-news-less/#comment-3880 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:34:16 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/?p=2630#comment-3880 i am most dissapointed your evil book with the cussing and the low self esteem i have to agree with gayla coughlin she is right

]]> Comment on Six degrees of Little Women by Ilima http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/six-degrees-of-little-women/#comment-3859 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:18:21 +0000 https://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/six-degrees-of-little-women/#comment-3859 Wow. Just…wow.

]]> Comment on Bigfoot sings Unchained Melody by Amal http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/bigfoot-sings-unchained-melody/#comment-3853 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:07:53 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/?p=1401#comment-3853 This is my father <333

]]> Comment on Norman Hunter’s Incrediblania and Professor Branestawm stories by oneoflokis http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/norman-hunters-incrediblania-and-professor-branestawm-stories/#comment-3847 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:17:07 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/norman-hunters-incrediblania-and-professor-branestawm-stories/#comment-3847 ..to realise it was partly because of Norman Hunter; plus sundry other less well-remembered but often funny authors read out on Jackanory (a UK kids’programme, long-running but now I think defunct except for specials.)

It was some of the authors on that, especially,&also the classic absurdist poets such as Edward Lear that must be to blame for my sense of humour, I have decided!

The kids’ entertainment business in my day, certainly in UK, really believed in amusing kids:&sneaking a bit of improvement in by way of an alternative! I wonder if it still does: I think UK kids’ lit is still probably quite funny.

Perhaps quite unlike today’s Hollywood! (&I have long wondered why so many N Ams of my own generation (G. ), and possibly some younger ones, are so impossibly serious and “emo” about things! Going for things like those interminably “serious” modern Batman movies, 4instance!

Some might say “global warming” but my gen had to live with MAD!

Do you think they have a shortage of N Hunter in their lives? :)

]]> Comment on Norman Hunter’s Incrediblania and Professor Branestawm stories by oneoflokis http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/norman-hunters-incrediblania-and-professor-branestawm-stories/#comment-3846 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:01:25 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/norman-hunters-incrediblania-and-professor-branestawm-stories/#comment-3846 Hello! Came across your wordpress whilst Googling “Incrediblania”.

Fond memories! I remember these on the kids’ storytelling programme, Jackanory, in the 1980s! Can’t remember who read them though: all I remember was that it was vigorous and the illustrations were hilarious!!

I had to Google though before I could remember the author’s surname. I knew it was Norman something! Hunter. He was one of the last of these fine British authors born at the end of the c19th or thereabouts, wasn’t he? So he was quite old when I was a kid. But I remember him having quite modern ideas: I remember him being fascinated by feminist neologisms such as “herstory”! He was fascinated by language, I think because he was in advertising at one time. I remember him being interviewed for my Puffin Club magazine!

So you think Norman Hunter is reminiscent of Stanislaw Lem? Interesting idea..

Anyway, thanks for the memories! I was just wondering why I happen to have such an absurdist sense of humour; and I think I am coming..

]]> Comment on My Golden Compass Daemon .. a large, atheist cat by lyra http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/my-golden-compass-daemon-a-large-atheist-cat/#comment-3844 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:13:24 +0000 http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/my-golden-compass-daemon-a-large-atheist-cat/#comment-3844 How do u make a daemon well that cuz once i click on the link i cant find it!!??

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