Surely, they’d envy the Popper children, Janie and Bill, who get to frolic with a flock of penguins! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He wrote for a number of newspapers including the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Herald-Examiner. Popper could not have taken the Penguins back to the Southern Hemisphere, to the Antarctic, or to the southern reaches of South America, to an area where penguins are meant to live, are endemic and native).

In 1932, Richard Atwater and his wife, Florence, took their two daughters to see a documentary film about Richard E.The Poppers then receive a female penguin from the zoo, who mates with Captain Cook to have 10 baby penguins. Popper has always longed to be a polar explorer; after a letter to Antarctic explorer Admiral Drake, the admiral ships Mr. Might have been be better to have got a book with illustrations relating to the story being read, as seemed unsatisfactory to a young listener.

Popper's Penguins as a child, and while I have in fact mildly enjoyed much if not most of the Atwaters' presented text as a sweet and humour-full animal/people interaction tale, and can also understand why and how it is considered a classic and much beloved by many, as an older adult reading Mr. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.I'm glad I did as I really enjoyed it and found it to be an excellent book and one that was easy to read and understand. I should probably start with pointing out that I'm 21, so not exactly the target audience for this book. Decided to try it on the seven year-old, who likes animal stories, and was curious to see if I'd still like it at this late date. I have been aware of this book's existence since I was a kid, but somehow I never got around to reading it.

Drake lets all of the twelve penguins go with him on his expedition to the North Pole, where they will be released experimentally into the Arctic. Some bits were a bit boring, and the concept of the penguins somehow learning all those tricks and miraculously not pooping in the house is a little ridiculous, but it's a kids book after all, and I loved it nonetheless. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY.DIVRichard Tupper Atwater (1892–1948) lived in Chicago and worked as a journalist, often writing humorous pieces for newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune. Popper's Penguins and especially with its ending as simply a fun and engaging classic animal themed tale (because I just do NOT even remotely understand why Admiral Drake and by extension Mr. 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. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage.