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Richard Atwater

Author

(1892 - 1948)

Richard Atwater was a professor of classics at the University of Chicago who, along with his wife Florence wrote “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.” It went on to win both a Newbery Honor award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.



Bibliography

Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938)

When Mr. Popper unexpectedly becomes the proprietor of a troupe of penguins, he takes them on the road to make ends meet.

Read online at archive.org

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1939

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