14 | March | 2011 | Rarest Kind of Best

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK

Richard & Florence Atwater, authors

Robert Lawson, illustrator

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1938

138 pp

ages 4 and up (chapter book to read aloud)

Interests: penguins, antarctic

Ruth Stiles Gannett, author

Ruth Chrisman Gannett, illustrator

New York: Random House, 1948

87 p

ages 4+ (chapter book)

Interests: jungle animals, maps, travel adventure, dragons