The Artsy Smartsy Club

By Daniel Pinkwater

Book Overview

They were on their own -- three kids and one giant chicken. Stuck in Hoboken for the summer, Nick Itch, Loretta Fischetti, and Bruno Ugg are really, really bored. After whiling away their time... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060535571
• ISBN13: 9780060535575
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Beats Watching Raw Liver Slide Down a Wall

Don't read this book if you: 1) Like to spend time shouting into fans. 2) Like to throw toilet paper into fans. 3) Enjoy doing the first two with the fan turned on. 4) Fly an American flag in front of your house all the time. 5) Rather watch bowling on TV while eating raw liver. Do read this book if you: 1) Enjoy speaking with an affected British accent. 2) Like two hundred pound chickens. 3) Grew up learning about art in basements, garages, and museums 4) Don't have a problem with professional underemployment. 5) Have a Ph.D. in physics.

Will appeal to artists and chickenistas

Ol' D. Manus has written two sequels to "The Hoboken Chicken Emergency," both nearly 30 years after. In this second sequel, a later generation has inherited Henrietta, the 6-foot tall chicken, and now she pals around with Nick Itch and his friends Loretta Fischetti and Bruno Ugg in Hoboken. This coming of art story begins with the work of a mysterious screever -- a sidewalk chalk artist. It leads the brave trio on forbidden and fascinating journeys to Manhattan, where Henrietta escorts them to a museum dressed as a nun and they meet, among other completely believable characters, legendary art dealer Davis Davisdavis; actually, Nick's father, with his affected British vocabulary, is one of my favorite minor characters, of which there are plenty in this fast-paced and get-off-your-duff-and-do-it motivational novel. Lest you think this is a novel that will find its place primarily in the Pinkwater chicken oeuvre, you should know that this is a book for aspiring artists, which is to say, everyone, not just those fascinated with extremely large and friendly fowl.

A hoot and great art to boot

The three children from "Looking for Bobowicz" (and their giant chicken) learn about art in this funny book by Daniel Pinkwater, the third in his "Hoboken Chicken Emergency" series.