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Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken (2010)

by Daniel Pinkwater(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312558244 (ISBN13: 9780312558246)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Feiwel & Friends

review 1: I heard Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon read this on Weekend Saturday and knew that I had to have it. So I bought it to read to my grandchildren. They loved it as much as I did. My little known secret is that I love the works of Pinkwater and Pinkwater himself. His wife's Illustrations make the story. Yet escapes the truck taking her you-know-where. From there we follow her adventures in Brooklyn with friends and enemies. Great Great read.
review 2: Daniel Pinkwater is another author my local library has introduced me to. Two of his books were sitting on their recommended children's books recently: The Neddiad (review coming) and Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken. Now since one is a middle grade book and the other is a picture book, I didn't notice t... morehat they were by the same author until I sat down to write my reviews.Beautiful Yetta is about a Yiddish speaking chicken who breaks free from her cage and escapes the truck brining her into the city. While she's trying to figure out a safe place to be she saves a wild parrot from a hungry looking cat. The book is written in English, Yiddish (with transliteration) and Spanish.The book is set in Brooklyn and at the end of the book Daniel Pinkwater includes a little background on the story. There are in fact wild parrots (just as there are in South Pasadena and San Francisco) and kosher butchers. He says he doesn't know if chickens speak Yiddish but thought it would be fun to suppose they could.I read Beautiful Yetta before I read The Neddiad and I was skeptical at first. It's not that I don't believe in chickens or parrots in urban areas; I've seen both. It just seemed like an incredibly odd choice of story. Now having completely enjoyed Melvin the Shaman from The Neddiad I've come to realize that odd ball characters and plot lines are what he specializes in. I can certainly say that Yetta has stuck with me both as a story and as a character. less

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