Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine

by William Kennedy, Brendan Kennedy, Glen Baxter (Illustrator)

children

Hardcover

First published October 22, 1987

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural.

Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983, winner of 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; film, 1987), and Roscoe (2002).


See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_...

Reviews

[Jill]

Wow, astonishingly bad. The words describe interesting things and the illustrations show none of what is described. Comes off as being written by a child then edited by another child that didn't understand what the first child was talking about.