Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken

by Daniel Pinkwater

Other authorsJill Pinkwater (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

E PIN

Publication

Feiwel & Friends (2010), Edition: Special Edition, Paperback, 32 pages

Description

Yetta, the beautiful chicken, breaks free from the truck that is carrying her to market. She quickly realizes the big city is nothing like the chicken farm. She is scared and confused until she meets and saves the life of a little, green parrot.

Library's rating

Barcode

3775

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

Language

User reviews

LibraryThing member kidlit9
When Yetta escapes from the poultry farmer, she is alone in Brooklyn until she befriends a Spanish-speaking parrot.
LibraryThing member llpollac
When Yiddish-speaking Yetta the chicken escapes from her crate on Mr. Fleigleman's truck, she finds herself alone in unfamiliar Brooklyn. After she rescues Eduardo, a Spanish-speaking wild parrot, from a hungry cat, she makes a group of friends who become like her family. This quirky picture book
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is trilingual between English, Spanish, and Yiddish. All of the dialogue is rendered in English, but the non-English speech is also captured in the original language and transliterated into a phonetic pronunciation, all in the same speech balloon. The plot is rather thin, and the artwork, while good, is nothing special. This book would work well in an ESL teacher's classroom collection, or anywhere where there is a need of materials in Yiddish. Otherwise, this is recommended as an additional selection for preschool to second grade as a read-aloud, and for second to fourth grades as an independent read.
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LibraryThing member shelf-employed
A trilingual book - English, Spanish, and Yiddish? Yes, Yiddish - the language of Yetta, a runaway from Mr. Flegleman's organic chicken ranch! Daniel Pinkwater has a unique sense of humor and he's obviously fond of chickens (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency comes to mind). Both of these are evident in
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Beautiful Yetta, in which the heroine escapes the chicken truck and finds herself in Brooklyn, where she promptly saves a small green bird, a parrot belonging to one of the local colonies,

"Parrots? ?פּאָפּוגײַ popuGEYehn?

The chicken saved me. And look! Isn't she beautiful?
¡La gallina me salvó! ¡Y miren! ¿No es ella hermosa?
la gahYEEna me sahlVO! ee MEErehn, no ess EHya ehrMOsa?"

And so begins the odd friendship and pairing of chicken and parrot, Yiddish and Spanish, on the streets of Brooklyn. The in-text pronunciation guides make it possible to share this story with only a passing ability in Spanish or Yiddish. A short explanation and chart of the Hebrew/Yiddish alphabet follows the story. A Spanish alphabet chart would have been welcome as well.
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LibraryThing member Sullywriter
Entertaining tale of a Yiddish-speaking chicken who avoids being turned into soembody's dinner.
LibraryThing member dukefan86
This is a pretty cute story about a country chicken who adopts and is adopted by some Brooklyn parrots!
LibraryThing member matthewbloome
This book was strange, but I write that a lot about Daniel Pinkwater's books, but something else that I write about his stories that holds true here is that it was funny and wonderful at the same time. He decided to make this a trilingual story, mixing English, Spanish, and Yiddish text together
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into a heaping helping of bizarre storytelling fun. He's back on chickens again, a strange running motif in his books, that and stories set in northern New Jersey. Odd. This story is based on a true story though, so that makes it even stranger. I don't know. The book's worth a read. Give it a try.
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LibraryThing member mccandlessn
Mediocre pictures and mediocre language supplemented by dual language and dual alphabets
LibraryThing member RobertaLea
I don't tire of chicken stories. Even those chickens (and friends) who are multi-lingual. Daniel Pinkwater is a tried and true storyteller.

ISBN

0312644418 / 9780312644413
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