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Reader reviewed by EshInoBi

This was a good book. Well, not really. I think it's meant to be a book for 6 to 7 year olds, and the silly class-clownish boy in my class was reading it and recommended it. It was 130 pages, which made me smile. So I decided to read it. I feel a bit silly writing a review about it, as the book has a weird storyline. It's about a guy, Mr.Popper, who is a painter and gets a package from Antarctica with a penguin in it. This surprised me... Anyways, they build him a mini-freezer, and it's all far-fetched that only young children would believe why or what was happening. Still, even with a sort-of-nonsense storyline, there's still plot problems, like the penguin (Captain Cook = funny name) getting sick, mating with another penguin, Greta, and having lots of penguin babies. Soon, they perform... The whole time, I was thinking, 'It's not cold enough'. I don't really recommend this silly book.