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Cargando... Mr. Popper's Penguins (1938 original; edición 1992)por Richard Atwater
Información de la obraMr. Popper's Penguins por Richard Atwater (Author) (1938)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I truly adored the first part of this book and I thought it was going to be a five-star read, but the second half was much worse and I didn't like the ending. I wish I had read this book as a child. ( ) Mr. Popper, an unassuming, gentle man, paints houses for a living. His hobbies are reading books and watching documentaries about the North and South Poles. When Popper sends a letter to the famous Antarctic explorer, Admiral Drake, the admiral answers his letter by sending him a surprise- a male Adelie penguin. Mr. Popper names him Captain Cook and builds him a nest in the icebox. When the penguin falls sick from lack of companionship, Mr. Popper gets a female penguin from a zoo. Then, the Poppers transform their basement into a miniature South Pole, and, soon, Greta lays ten eggs. With all the new mouths to feed and extra expenses incurred to keep the penguins cold, the Poppers are soon out of money and in debt. The Poppers and the neighbors love watching the penguins’ antics so Mr. Popper decides to audition them as a theater act. They are a success, and the Poppers go on a ten-week tour of the United States. Wrong directions and penguin antics almost ruin everything. ©2024 Kathy Maxwell at https://bookskidslike.com I remember my mom reading this aloud to me and my siblings, and that we all really liked it. I'd forgotten pretty much everything, though, and decided to read it to my nieces (ages 7, 9, 10). They all loved it and gave it 5 stars. I have to, also! This is a really sweet story about a man who is sent penguins, and all the fun silliness that unfolds with him, his family, and his new pets. "Janie and Bill would often bring their little friends home from school with them, and they would all go down and watch the penguins for hours. "At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. There he would sit and read, with his mittens on, looking up from time to time to see what his pets were doing. He often thought.... how different his life had been before the penguins had come to keep him occupied.... He dreaded to think of the time when.... he would have to leave them all day..." pp 79-80 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Mr. Popper vive en una tranquila y pequena ciudad americana llamada Stillwater. Alli nunca pasa nada. Quiza por eso se ha convertido en un sonador y en un especialista en temas del Crtico y de la Antartida, incluso podria decir el nombre de todos sus exploradores y que fueron a hacer a los polos. Un dia conversa, gracias a un programa de radio, con el almirante Drake sobre su expedicion a la Antartida, y este le dice que pronto recibira una sorpresa... Lo que nadie podia suponer es que el almirante iba a enviar una caja con B!un pinguino de la mismisima Antartida! La vida de nuestro protagonista cambiara radicalmente, y la aburrida vida en Stillwater se transformara en una fantastica y permanente aventura llena de pinguinos. Richard Atwater (1892-1948) nacio en Chicago y fue profesor de griego en la universidad, donde conocio a su alumna Florence (1896-1979), que en 1921 se convertia en su esposa. Con Los pinguinos de Mr. Popper (1938) alcanzaron el exito, tras inspirarse Richard en imagenes grabadas de la primera expedicion a la Antartida, realizada por el almirante Byrd. Ya iniciada la escritura del libro, el cayo muy enfermo antes de terminarlo, y tuvo que ser Florence quien, a partir de 1934, lo revisara y diese fin. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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