Dan Greenburg (1936–2023)
Author of Zap! I'm a Mind Reader
About the Author
Author Dan Greenburg was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 20, 1936. He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a M.A. from UCLA. He writes for both children and adults. His children's series include Zack Files, Secrets of Dripping Fang, and Maximum Boy. His best-selling adult titles show more include How to Be a Jewish Mother, Scoring, Love Kills, and How to Avoid Love and Marriage. He is also a humorist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. He currently lives in Westchester County, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Dan Greenburg
Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book Two: Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days (2006) 89 copies, 2 reviews
Maximum Boy "Hijacked" 1 copy
Ah şu kadınlar 1 copy
Como Enlouquecer Você Mesmo 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Greenburg, Dan
- Birthdate
- 1936-06-20
- Date of death
- 2023-12-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- complications of a stroke
- Places of residence
- Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA
- Education
- University of Illinois (BA|1958)
University of California, Los Angeles (MA) - Occupations
- author
screenwriter
humorist
journalist
playwright - Relationships
- Ephron, Nora (first wife)
O'Malley, Suzanne (second wife)
Greenburg, J. C. (wife) - Awards and honors
- Outstanding Theatre Graduate (George Mason University, 1985)
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Reviews
The Only True Biography of Mae Jemison, By Sneeze,… by Dan Greenburg
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Oh what fun this was! I love cats. I love women doing incredible things. A cat telling me about her Mommy doing incredible things? Yes! Please do! Especially when you do it this well.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.What a disappointment! Turns out I am unable to read this on my Kindle Paperwhite because the font is too small and there is no way to enlarge it. I've never run into an issue like this and don't know if there are any workarounds. So, until I figure out how to get it to open on my tablet or laptop, I can't read it. It looks so good, too. I may just have to buy a copy.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I received a copy of The Only True Biography of Mae Jemison by Sneeze, Her Cat by Dan Greenburg from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I am on my public library board and we are focusing on EDI this year. I requested this book with an eye to recommending it for inclusion in our library. I’m happy to say I will definitely be making this recommendation. This is a charming story that makes an extraordinary woman seem very human through the eyes of her cat. It also should improve people’s opinion of cats, as Sneeze is both wise and funny. It was a nice relief from the pandemic to read this enchanting tale.… (more)
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Jemison's story is very compelling, and it's wonderful that there's a biography of her for young readers. The book includes vivid descriptions and you get a feel for Jemison's personality as well as for the life of an astronaut. The cat biographer persona is fun, reminiscent of Robert Lawson's Ben and Me.
However, a couple of elements of the book stuck out for me as disruptive to the flow or annoying. At points, it feels like Sneeze's voice tries so hard to be conversational, off-the-cuff, and kid-like that it comes across as affected. Kids pick up on this affectation even if they don't have words to describe it. The explanations of the "Cattish" language are similarly a little too much; even a young reader doesn't need to be told multiple times that "squeek-squeek" is Cattish for "mouse." My other quibble is that the first several chapters bounce back and forth between biography and fun facts about African wildlife; by the time I got used to alternating and they no longer felt like strangely long digressions, the book stopped doing them and every chapter was biography. On the other hand, I tend to have an enthusiastic young reader in mind when I read children's books, and the book is explicitly targeted at either reluctant readers or reluctant readers of history, and it's possible that the elements that are concerns for me would be good features for those readers.
Overall, this book wasn't the delight to read that it could have been.… (more)
However, a couple of elements of the book stuck out for me as disruptive to the flow or annoying. At points, it feels like Sneeze's voice tries so hard to be conversational, off-the-cuff, and kid-like that it comes across as affected. Kids pick up on this affectation even if they don't have words to describe it. The explanations of the "Cattish" language are similarly a little too much; even a young reader doesn't need to be told multiple times that "squeek-squeek" is Cattish for "mouse." My other quibble is that the first several chapters bounce back and forth between biography and fun facts about African wildlife; by the time I got used to alternating and they no longer felt like strangely long digressions, the book stopped doing them and every chapter was biography. On the other hand, I tend to have an enthusiastic young reader in mind when I read children's books, and the book is explicitly targeted at either reluctant readers or reluctant readers of history, and it's possible that the elements that are concerns for me would be good features for those readers.
Overall, this book wasn't the delight to read that it could have been.… (more)
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