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Florence Atwater
Author
(1896 - 1979)
Florence Hasseltine Carroll Atwater earned a masters degree in French literature. She married Richard Tupper Atwater and had two children. After her husband was disabled by a stroke, she revised his children’s book, “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” which went on to win both a Newbery Honor award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Bibliography
The Children’s Hour Volume 4 (1953)
A collection of humorous and nonsense stories and verse. Includes a selection from Mr. Popper's Penguins, with illustrations by Robert Lawson.
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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.
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Author(s):
Florence Atwater
Richard Atwater
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson