Florence Atwater

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Florence Atwater

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children’s literature
Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940)
Two of them—Florence and Richard Atwater—worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humor that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all, started in…
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Two of them—Florence and Richard Atwater—worked as a pair. Their isolated effort, Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938), will last as a masterpiece of deadpan humor that few children or adults can resist. The third writer is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her Little House books, nine in all, started in…
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