The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
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ISBN: 0671664476 / Publisher: Aladdin, November 1977
When the butcher at Murphy's Meat Market loses the order for the Bobowicz family's Thanksgiving turkey, young Arthur brings home a chicken weighing two hundred sixty-six pounds which causes a bizarre crisis in Hoboken, New Jersey
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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 ofThe Hoboken Chicken Emergency will have readers crowing so hard with laughter, they may just lay an egg!
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