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- "The Penguin Goes A Courtin'"
- Summary: Two of literature's great umbrella travelers-- The Penguin and Mary Poppins-- have dinner together in Merry Old England.
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Review of The Penguin Goes A Courtin'
Susan Barrett Price
Posted on February 05, 2004 at 05:33 AM
This is a wonderful exercise in the meeting up of storybook characters within a historical time. The result is droll and entertaining. It is just long enough to set up the chemistry among the characters and ends before the whimsy gets tiresome. It suggests much, much more under the surface. Goldstein has a good deadpan voice for this piece, which keeps the tone ironic and intimate.