He is best known for writing Mr. Popper's Penguins with his wife, Florence, who finished the novel when he fell ill. Before his death in 1948, Richard Atwater was a newspaper columnist and a professor of Greek. Together, they were honored with the 1939 Newbery Honor Award.
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The classic Newbery Honor book about a man and a house full of penguins—a childhood favorite for generations. Mr. Popper's Penguins is one of the handful of American books for children that has attained the status of a classic. A humble hous... SEE MORE