The Locale: Cassie & Susan’s Home
The Book: More than 60 years have not dated this wonderfully absurd tale--it still makes kids (and parents) laugh out loud. Poor Mr. Popper isn't exactly unhappy; he just wishes he had seen something of the world before meeting Mrs. Popper and settling down. Most of all, he wishes he had seen the Poles, and spends his spare time between house-painting jobs reading all about polar explorations. Admiral Drake, in response to Mr. Popper's fan letter, sends him a penguin; life at 432 Proudfoot Avenue is never the same again. From one penguin living in the icebox, the Popper family grows to include 12 penguins, all of whom must be fed. Thus is born "Popper's Performing Penguins, First Time on Any Stage, Direct from the South Pole
The Fun: The girls made penguin charm pins and bracelets. Learning the meaning of new vocabulary, words pulled from the book and looked. Then Cassie shared a related picture book, 365 Penguins, by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet, which all the girls took turns reading.
The Food: Shrimp and Gold Fish--just like what the penguins loved to eat, but of course our shrimp was in a cocktail and the gold fish were crackers. Desert was an ice cream cake shaped like an a ice berg. Yummy!
The Vote: Megan’s three books were The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas, The Monster Ring by Bruce Covelle, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Charlotte Doyle won. Runner up was The Monster Ring.
Up Next: Ida B by Katherine Hannigan, hosted at Odessa & AiYing’s house on February 6th.
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