Richard Atwater
Paperback | Pages: 139 pages Rating: 3.97 | 61232 Users | 2687 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| ISBN: | 0316058432 (ISBN13: 9780316058438) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (1939), Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1958), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (1941) |
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The single greatest book of my childhood. (Nerd alert warning)...This will explain how much I enjoyed this book. When I first read it, I had inherited a copy from one of my older siblings. They had written their name in the front of it, because our mother has a weird obsession with putting our names on everything that was ours (especially books and clothes). When I was sent home with one of the scholastic book buy handouts (which I was obsessed with), I told my mom that we did not own the book. Yes...I lied to my mother in order to buy a seven dollar book when I was in third grade just so that I could put my name on the front cover. Still a little proud of that momentDescribe Epithetical Books Mr. Popper's Penguins
| Title | : | Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| Author | : | Richard Atwater |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 139 pages |
| Published | : | November 2nd 1992 by Little, Brown and Company (first published 1938) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Fiction. Classics. Animals |
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Review written in 2nd grade: This is a very good book of a man that got one penguin in a box. After that he got one more. Then the new penguin got babies. There were ten penguins after the babies came. In the end of the book he goes to the south pole. If you want to know all the funny (sic) that happens to the Popper family, read the book. You can get it [in] our library.Obviously, I am taking this too seriously, but I found the financial ineptitude of Mr. Popper most distressing.
I have been aware of this book's existence since I was a kid, but somehow I never got around to reading it. The past few months the kids and I have been on an "animal stories" kick for our bedtime reading, but of course we like funny animal books, not dead dogs and horses, so I turned to this. What a little gem! I honestly didn't know what this book was about, except for what you can glean from the title (there's a guy, named Mr. Popper, he has penguins). The story of how he gets the penguins,
Read this for discussion with the Newberry Book group in the Goodreads group Children's Books. Enjoyed the fancifulness of the story with its gentle humor and huge sense of adventure.
Mr Popper is a DIRTBAG, and this book is ridiculous. I am sure it's because I'm too old to come to the book for the first time - my 4yo loved it until the end - but I couldn't get past the dumb dumbness of the whole situation.
Finished this with my 8yr old last night. She seemed to really enjoy the book as we read it.We read this book as a part of her school's newest book reading adventure, One School, One Book and each day we had to read two chapters and then the next day, the kids would answer trivia questions to try and win prizes. It was a great way to get them to do more than just read the words, they had to comprehend what they were reading and hearing us read to them.As for the book, you can definitely tell
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