Who is Mr. Popper from Mr. Popper's Penguins and what is their importance?

Mr. Popper is a house painter in Stillwater. Though a hard worker, he is a dreamer and a romantic. He has never been outside of Stillwater, and he fantasizes often about having great adventures in exotic places, such as the Himalayas. He is particularly fond of the Arctic and Antarctic, and is enthralled by "Polar" movies with those places as their subject. His own adventure starts when he writes Admiral Drake, explorer of the Poles, a letter, which Drake responds to by sending a penguin to Mr. Popper.

For additional inforamtion about Mr. Popper, please see BookRags character page in the Study Pack for this unit.