Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater is a
classic children's chapter book. The book was originally published in
1938 and a film based on it was released in 2011.
The main
characters of the book are the Popper family and the penguins. Mr.
Popper is really interested in Antarctica and reads about it a lot and
listens to a radio show broadcasted from Antarctica by an Admiral
Drake. In response to a letter Mr. Popper writes to the Admiral, the
Admiral surprisingly sends Mr. Popper a penguin.
The Popper's care
for the penguin like a pet and eventually the penguin ends up with a
mate from a zoo and they have ten penguin babies. In order to afford to
feed and keep the penguins, the penguins begin to perform in a circus
act. The Popper family and the penguins have some adventures as they
travel with the circus including ending up in jail.
In the end, it
is decided the circus act is inappropriate for the penguins and instead
the penguins and Mr. Popper go to the North Pole with Admiral Drake to
possibly set up a penguin colony up there.
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