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groveperson's review
5.0
My son got this book from the PJ Library (http://www.pjlibrary.org/). It is now one of my favorite children's books. Yetta the chicken gets loose on the streets of Brooklyn and finds new friends. All dialog is written in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and, in some cases, Spanish.
ferrisscottr's review
3.0
Good book about a chicken that escapes the butcher and heads to Brooklyn with the standard Pinkwater zaniness.
Better than most of what is out there but I guess I expect more from Pinkwater...different standards, yes but it is what it is - when you're that good your fans expect a masterpiece every time.
Better than most of what is out there but I guess I expect more from Pinkwater...different standards, yes but it is what it is - when you're that good your fans expect a masterpiece every time.
elephant's review
5.0
Such a cute book!
When Mr. Flegleman, the organic chicken rancher takes a load of chickens to market, the brave and beautiful Yetta escapes into the unknown world of Brooklyn. Yetta speaks in Yiddish, written in Hebrew and translated into English and transliterated. She finds Brooklyn to be strange and frightening until she bravely saves Eduardo the parrot, who speaks Spanish, from a cat. She settles in and begins to enjoy life in Brooklyn with her new parrot friends.
I think the book is very cute and funny and I enjoyed it very much!
When Mr. Flegleman, the organic chicken rancher takes a load of chickens to market, the brave and beautiful Yetta escapes into the unknown world of Brooklyn. Yetta speaks in Yiddish, written in Hebrew and translated into English and transliterated. She finds Brooklyn to be strange and frightening until she bravely saves Eduardo the parrot, who speaks Spanish, from a cat. She settles in and begins to enjoy life in Brooklyn with her new parrot friends.
I think the book is very cute and funny and I enjoyed it very much!
pussreboots's review
5.0
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 that 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.
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.
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