“No author has ever captured the great fun of being weird, growing up as a happy mutant, unfettered by convention, as well as Pinkwater has. When I was a kid, Pinkwater novels like Lizard Music…made me intensely proud to be a little off-center and weird…The NYRB edition of Lizard Music is beautiful…It’s one of those books that, in the right hands at the right time, can change your life for the better and forever.”—Cory Doctorow
“Pinkwater is the uniquest. And so are his books.”—Neil Gaiman
“Lizard Music is…funny, properly paranoid, shot through with bad puns and sweet absurdities, and all about a baffled kid intent on tracking reality (as slippery as lizards) in a media-spooked milieu.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A writer for smart kids…Pinkwater writes for, and about, people who are not ashamed to look at life a little differently.” —Wired