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Podcast #057

For my fifty-seventh Dream Gardens kid lit podcast, I interviewed author Kelly Jones about the middle grade comic novel The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater.

First published in 1977, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency tells the story of a young boy, Arthur, who’s sent off to pick up the family’s Thanksgiving turkey, but ends up bringing home a two-hundred sixty-six pound chicken named Henrietta. Arthur and Henrietta quickly bond, but when the giant chicken escapes into the city, all of Hoboken gets their feathers ruffled in a big way.  So its up to Arthur to rescue her before its too late for Henrietta. A silly, funny, and ultimately warm-hearted story from the unique mind of Daniel Pinkwater.

Kelly Jones is author of the middle grade books Murder, Magic and What We Wore, Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer, Are You Ready to Hatch an Unusual Chicken, and coming up in September of this year, Sauerkraut. You can find Kelly’s website at curiosityjones.net.

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My next podcast will be with author Padma Venkatraman, talking about Margarita Engle’s verse memoirs Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings and Soaring Earth. It will be published on August 1st.