In this children's classic, a house painter finds his slow winter season disrupted when an Antarctic explorer mails him a penguin. Suddenly the Popper family's life is thrown upside down by their furry friend. When they procure him a wife, they are inundated with a whole family of penguins which they teach to perform on stage. As an adult, I found many elements of the story mind-boggling, but with an audiobook under 2 hours, Mr. Popper's Penguins was the perfect little story to entertain my children on a short road trip.