‘Beautiful Yetta’: A Yiddish Chicken With Chutzpah

Source: NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday

Date: 2010-08-14

Daniel Pinkwater’s new children’s book, Beautiful Yetta, isn’t your average bedtime story. The story may seem traditional — a chicken escapes from the butcher’s shop and finds a new home among parrots in Brooklyn — but the characters in the book don’t just speak one language to each other. There’s English, there’s Spanish, and there’s Yiddish, translated phonetically for those who can’t read the Hebrew characters — all fleshing out an uplifting tale of acceptance in the urban jungle.

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