3.5
The Popper Penguin Rescue
By Eliot SchreferPublisher Description
From two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer comes an original penguin-tastic adventure inspired by the beloved classic Mr. Popper's Penguins.
It's been years and years since the Popper family lived in Stillwater, but the town is still riding high on its former penguin residents. Across the river, in Hillport, residents try to re-create the magic with penguin carnival rides and penguin petting zoos, pretending they're the Popper originals. As the years have gone by, fewer and fewer people have come, and the small attractions shuttered.
Nina and Joe Popper have just moved to Hillport with their mother. There's a lot to do: unpacking, scrubbing the floors, investigating the basement—wait, what's this? Two penguin eggs are tucked snugly near the furnace!
It's up to Nina and Joe to find their newly hatched penguin chicks a home. Setting off on the adventure of a lifetime, they endure perilous storms, a long journey to the Arctic, and of course, penguins. Lots and lots of Popper penguins!
It's been years and years since the Popper family lived in Stillwater, but the town is still riding high on its former penguin residents. Across the river, in Hillport, residents try to re-create the magic with penguin carnival rides and penguin petting zoos, pretending they're the Popper originals. As the years have gone by, fewer and fewer people have come, and the small attractions shuttered.
Nina and Joe Popper have just moved to Hillport with their mother. There's a lot to do: unpacking, scrubbing the floors, investigating the basement—wait, what's this? Two penguin eggs are tucked snugly near the furnace!
It's up to Nina and Joe to find their newly hatched penguin chicks a home. Setting off on the adventure of a lifetime, they endure perilous storms, a long journey to the Arctic, and of course, penguins. Lots and lots of Popper penguins!
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“This book was not great. I read this book with my kids because we were studying penguins at the time.
We read Mr. Popper's Penguins and thought we would move right into reading this one. It looked fun, and it's always cool when stories continue. But it was drastically different, and not in an enjoyable way. Mr. Popper's Penguins is quirky, fun, and wholesome. The humor comes from unexpected situations and goofiness. You can easily suspend your disbelief to enjoy the story thoroughly. But Popper Penguin Rescue misses the mark in all those areas.
The story is about two kids and their mom (never any real mention of the dad) who move into a house that used to house a penguin show of some sort. They find two penguin eggs in the basement and decide they want to try to hatch them. My primary issue with this book is what happens next. They decide they don't want to "overwhelm" their mother by telling her about the eggs, so they keep lying to her about what they are doing, sneaking things past her, etc. They basically have no respect for her and think she's dumb and overwrought enough that she won't notice. They take the eggs to school, where they somehow hatch in approximately two minutes right at the same time, with one of them actually getting dropped on the ground. Then they STILL don't come clean but lie AGAIN to their teachers saying they are sick and need to go home. (I almost stopped reading at this point. This is not behavior I think anyone should want to encourage in children.)
Long story short, their mother does find out about the penguins eventually, which was inevitable of course. But she spends about ten seconds starting to get upset and maybe discipline then but then starts talking about how "cute" the penguins are and that's that. No consequences, no lesson about how they shouldn't lie.
Then the book just gets completely unbelievable.
Overall, one of my least favorite books. Parents, I'd definitely recommend avoiding this book of at the vet least reading it aloud so you can make sure to point out the things like lying.”
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About Eliot Schrefer
Eliot Schrefer is a New York Times bestselling author, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the author of two novels for adults and four other novels for children and young adults. His books have been named to the NPR "best of the year" list, the ALA best fiction list for young adults, and the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best." His work has also been selected to the Amelia Bloomer List, recognizing best feminist books for young readers. He lives in New York City, where he reviews books for USA Today.
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