Young adult novel [Hardcover]

Daniel Manus Pinkwater (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1982

The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 58 pages
• Publisher: Crowell; 1st edition (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0690041888
• ISBN-13: 978-0690041880
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,490,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daniel Pinkwater lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York's Hudson River Valley.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Young Adult Novel, January 16, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Young adult novel (Hardcover)

By: Daniel Pinkwater

This book is about a group of kids, the Dadists, that are completely different from everyone else they know and make their debut by slipping piles of cards with simple messages like "Kevin Shapiro Rocks!" into the boys and girls bathrooms and polishing a toilet seat to be exhibited in the gym. The Dadists tell stories about a boy named Kevin Shapiro who never gets things to go his way, and they are thrilled when they find out that there is a boy named Kevin Shapiro at their school. I like this story because everything in it is completely random. This story has a weird plot and is just my style. Extraordinarily hilarious, this is a book that I recommend to all comedy lovers everywhere!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply twisted - inherently sick. Joyfully so., June 23, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Young Adult Novel (Library Binding)

I thought this was one of the best possible reasons to have children -- or to have friends that have children -- just to able to give them a copy of this book. What fun! What boundless fun

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Novel, May 3, 2005

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Andy Hemen "Teddy" (Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Young Adult Novel (Library Binding)

If you're looking for a slim novel that won't intimidate a young and sheepish reader, you've found it. It's a zany tale of a group of young Dadaists, their exploits to bring rise to a certain unknown student Kevin Shapiro, and the hilarious repercussion of their intrusion into the young man's life. The novel is intelligently written and is a tremendous amount of fun to read (no matter your age). It would also be great to use in secondary school.