The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

SOMETHING'S FOWL IN HOBOKEN.When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgivingturkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266 pound chicken with amind of her own. Feathers fly when this colossal clucker descends uponHoboken, New Jersey. Thus begins the hilarious hen-tastic tall tale thathas kept readers in stitches since Henrietta first pecked her way onto thescene in 1977.Revised with brand new illustrations by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth,this new edition ofThe Hoboken Chicken Emergencywill have readerscrowing so hard with laughter, they may just lay an egg!

Daniel Pinkwater is the author of several bestselling children's
books as well as a popular commentator on National Public Radio. He writes
regular reviews on Contentville.com. Daniel lives in Hyde Park, New York.

Tony Auth has been the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Enquirer since 1971. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1976, as well as five Overseas Press Club Awards and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. His cartoons are distributed around the world by Universal Press Syndicate.