SOMETHING'S FOWL IN HOBOKEN. When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266 pound chicken with a mind of her own. Feathers fly when this colossal clucker descends upon Hoboken, New Jersey. Thus begins the hilarious hen-tastic tall tale that has kept readers in stitches since Henrietta first pecked her way onto the scene in 1977. Revised with brand new illustrations by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth, this new edition of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency will have readers crowing so hard with laughter, they may just lay an egg
When Arthur Bobowicz is sent to the market to pick up his family's Thanksgiving turkey he is horrified to discover that there are no turkeys left in all of Hoboken. If Arthur doesn't bring home a turkey what will he and his family eat for their Thanksgiving feast? Then Arthur meets Professor Mazzocchi--"Inventor of the Chicken System"--who sells him a huge, live 266-pound chicken. Arthur's family is indeed surprised by Arthur's purchase but soon come to love the chicken so much that they decide to keep her as a pet. What will life be like with a 266-pound pound pet chicken and what will the other Hoboken residents think of the newest member of the Bobowicz family? Illustrated with bw drawings.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Humorous Stories, Holidays + Celebrations / Thanksgiving, Animals / Farm Animals, Animals / Birds
- Age: 9-12 years
- Publisher: Aladdin
- Pages: 101
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: September 25, 2007
- Date Published: September 25, 2007
- Author: Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- Illustrator: Tony Auth