Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story
When Nick moved from the leafy suburbs to muggy, urban Hoboken and his bike was stolen, he wasn't pleased. Then he found a place where he could listen to pirate radio friends with a stack of Classics Comics newspaper reports about a kid named Arthur Bobowicz and a 266-pound chicken named...
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When Nick moved from the leafy suburbs to muggy, urban Hoboken and his bike was stolen, he wasn't pleased. Then he found a place where he could listen to pirate radio friends with a stack of Classics Comics newspaper reports about a kid named Arthur Bobowicz and a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta the secret entrance to Sibyl's Cave and much, much more, all of it practically true. Get an ice-cold Dr. Pedwee's grape soda and prepare to enjoy this Pinkwater Special, complete with saucy dialogue, snarky wordplay, more than a few red herrings, and one bowl of disgusting oyster stew.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060535551 (0060535555)
Publish date: June 1st 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
If you loved The Hoboken Chicken Emergency as much as I did, you will be delighted to read this eccentric companion novel. My favorite thing was that there was a character named Sean Vergessen, because that's the punchline of a Yiddish joke my grandmother used to tell. ("Sean Vergessen" sounding lik...