Mr Popper, a great fan of arctic expeditions and explorers in general, one day receives a surprise in the mail from an Admiral he admires: a penguin. He promptly dubs it "Captain Cook" and happily settles it into the icebox (freezer), but, well...
if you give Mr Popper a penguin...
Written in
1938 by Richard and Florence Atwater, it won a
Newberry Medal in 1939 and the Young Reader's Choice Award in 1940.
Was made into a very loose
film adaptation starring
Jim Carrey in 2011.
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