Mr. Popper’s Taking His Penguins to the Movies!
Third graders everywhere are about to get a chance to cheat on their book reports. Come on – you know that’s what happens when they push a classic children’s book onto the big screen.
In this case, they made a good choice – because before there was the March of the Penguins and the Madagascar penguins, there was Mr. Popper and his brood of waddling birds.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins, a 1938 Newberry Honor Award winner, took a broke house painter on an adventure of Antarctic proportions when explorer Admiral Drake ships him a penguin via air mail. The family names him Captain Cook and sets up a home for him in the icebox (the name for a freezer back in 1938), but when he gets lonely another penguin gets shipped in – a female, who starts laying egg after massive penguin egg.
There’s not much known about the film version yet – Twentieth Century Fox apparently paid seven figures for rights to produce it, and writer/director Sean Anders and co-writer John Morris (the men who wrote Sex Drive) have gotten the nod to write up the screenplay.
Get your kids ready for the film with this site, full of facts on explorers like Admiral Drake, Antarctica facts and even a house-painting practice game.
Image: ScreeningLog
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