Mr. Popper's penguins
By: by Richard and Florence Atwater ; illustrated by Robert Lawson
Contributors: Atwater, Florence; Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957, ill; Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957, illustrator
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Readers; Penguins; Juvenile literature; House painters; Juvenile fiction
Description: Relates how the unexpected delivery of a large crate containing a live penguin changes the life of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the polar region.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Stillwater -- -- 2. The; title: voice in the air -- -- 3.; title: Out of the Antarctic -- -- 4.; title: Captain Cook -- -- 5.; title: Troubles with a penguin -- -- 6.; title: More troubles -- -- 7.; title: Captain Cook builds a nest -- -- 8.; title: Penguin's promenade -- -- 9.; title: In the barber shop -- -- 10.; title: Shadows -- -- 11.; title: Greta -- -- 12.; title: More mouths to feed -- -- 13.; title: Money worries -- -- 14.; title: Mr. Greenbaum.