^Atwater, Richard; Atwater, Florence (2015). Mr. Popper's Penguins, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780316186469 (revised Nov 2023)
I've lived 26 years on this earth. In those 26 years I've learned a lot about children's books. I've learned which ones are considered the holiest of holies and which are to be condemned and spat upon. So I was completely taken aback when I learned that there was a 1938 children's book that absolutely no one had ever told me to read before. "Mr. Popper's Penguins" was a delight to discover. Suddenly I was privy to reading a charming story of a man and his penguins, and I had never even heard a peep abo..