Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater ISBN: 0-689-82889-6 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Chickens Need Our Love!
Comment: The Hoboken Chicken Emergency was a really good book. It is a good book for third grade and up to read on their own. It takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey around Thanksgiving. It's about a boy named Arthur who goes to look for a turkey for Thanksgiving. The problem comes when he can't find one. Instead he ends up getting a 266 pound chicken named Henrietta. Arthur tries to keep the chicken as a pet but it runs away. Henrietta (the chicken) feels unwanted and creates diasters all over town. Read the book to find out what happens next. We thought the book was hilarious, funny, and exciting. We are nine and ten years old and we liked the book alot!
Rating: 3
Summary: When a Giant Chicken Falls Flat
Comment: Before I ordered this book, I read the reviews. I bcame convinced this must be a zany, funny book -- just the thing for my children. So I went ahead and ordered not *The Hoboken Chicken Emergency" only, but a volume of novels by Pinkwater. Oh, well. It's only money (though it could have been better spent elsewhere).
*The Hoboken Chicken Emergency* does have a wonderful premise and some satire as well (hence my pleasure at reading its reviews). I suppose it also has lessons to be learned about fearing the unknown -- but didacticism is not enough to make a good book. Nothing covers up for the fact that this book just plain isn't very good -- not for a modern child to read. I knew I was in trouble when I began reading it aloud to my son: each sentence had a dying fall, and the wit was strained, not spontaneous and fetching. "What am I getting into," I thought. Henrietta the chicken is lost and Henrietta is found, but the whole thing was a contest to see if I could finish the book before my child rebelled -- or I did.
Sad to say, this book shows its age. Some of the writing, too, needs polish. If you are tempted to buy this self-consciously zany book, buy *I Was a Rat* instead. *I Was a Rat* is all heart. *The Hoboken Chicken Emergency* is all lumpy prose. I'm hoping for better things with the other Pinkwater volumes I purchased, but we shall have to see. I love older rediscovered books, but this one doesn't work. Children expect more depth of story, not just cleverness at the expense of story. I'm very sure readers have fond memories of this book, but memory alone cannot bring the book alive for a modern audience. Give *The Hoboken Chicken Emergency* a pass, and go for a funny book that's meaty with heart and soul. If *I Was a Rat" doesn't appeal, you might try *The Little Prince* (Antoine de Sainte-Exupery) -- my son doesn't really understand it, but he loves it and seems to recognize that there are real issues underlying the surface.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not the best of Pinkwater, but still a great book
Comment: I didn't enjoy this book as much as Lizard Music or the Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death, but I found it on the whole to be a very enjoyable read... Much reccomended for Pinkwater fans, and seems to be a popular first book for people who've never read any D.M.P.
 |
Title: Lizard Music by Daniel Manus Pinkwater ISBN: 0440413192 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
 |
Title: Fat Men From Space by Daniel Manus Pinkwater ISBN: 0440445426 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 15 July, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
 |
Title: The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater ISBN: 0590445103 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
 |
Title: The Magic Pretzel : Ready For Chapters 1 by Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater ISBN: 0689837909 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
 |
Title: The Lunchroom of Doom : Ready-for-Chapters #2 by Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater ISBN: 068983845X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
