![]() ![]() ![]() Allard once again appeals to his readers’ precocity with snarky dialogue, silly specificity and vocab gone mad (the other hens “gleek and fleer” at Starlight, while another is described as a “harebrained hobbledehoy”). Booth’s adult fans will relish his deadpan wit: the other hens roost as Starlight sleeps in a properly made bed unfiled papers rain down from tall stacks in a malfunctioning office, illuminated by the trademark naked light bulb. Her quest for glory against all odds starts off like a dream vehicle for some of Allard’s (the Miss Nelson books) and New YorkerĬartoonist Booth’s favorite themes: anthropomorphism run amok, the unstoppable power of plucky cluelessness and the arbitrary nature of the universe, among them. Starlight (aka Ethel Fae Klucksworth) is a scrawny, google-eyed Tennessee hen who, aided by a “professional chicken fairy godmother,” tries to be a supermodel in Milan. Despite an inspired pairing and divinely ridiculous moments, this venture is more shaggy dog tale than comic revelation. ![]()
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