Yetta is a snow-white chicken who has fallen off a farm truck in the picture book Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken. Using funny and teasing prose–“Yetta, beautiful Yetta, will not be sold. She will not be soup!”–Daniel Pinkwater, author of the classic Fat Men from Space, tells a surprisingly moving story. Yetta, a Yiddish-speaking chicken, escapes from the butchery […]