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The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations!
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My personal childhood favorite, together with great blackline sketches of hilarious events like the broken doughnut machine, and the monstrous ball of rubber bands or twine - can't remember! Mr. McCloskey wrote with a huge extension of vocabulary compared to that of any author of childhood topics except for, perhaps, Mark Twain. Many people will be familiar with "Make Way for Ducklings" and blueberry hunting escapades in Maine, with sailors paddling hard in stormy New-England oceans. But the story entitled "Homer and the Doughnut Machine" will inspire all who read it to invent a machine, solve a sales problem, or just dunk a doughnut into some hot cider!
I read the tales of Homer Price many years ago. The rereading was as magical today as the first read was during childhood. I highly recommend the book for children. Adults will find it refreshing to journey back to a simpler time in children's literature, where the most ostentatious and obnoxious modern convenience is a doughnut machine.
Centerville is the setting for some wondrous, outlandish tales featuring colorful characters. Super Duper, a Superman hero-type fails to ultimately impress young comic book fans. Miss Terwilliger strikes a blow for women's rights in an appropriate yarn about giant balls of string. Modern day pied piper Michael Murphy comes to town with a better mousetrap and more.
Homer Price is clever, thoughtful and enjoyable. The stories are short, but densely packed with rich characterizations. The book should be a welcome edition to a home library.
Robert McCloskey is one of the great authors of books for children and adolescents. This is one of his best. The fact that I was able to purchase a used copy with ease was a source of considerable joy. This is a book set in the time when sprawl was about to become the American dilemma, combining rigid stratification, allegiance to a growingly-unaffordable commuter economy and implicit racism, setting a global pattern which has made lethal warming a reality. Homer is a nice kid at the beginning of an era that would have tested his patience and most likely made him a charter member of the Arcade Fire Fan Club.
First the bad:
"Homer Price" was my absolute favorite book as a young kid. I recently needed a trip down
a nostalgia path and wanted something valuable from my youth that I could share with my
grandkids. I purchased a used copy of the book through one of the re-sellers on Amazon. The
copy I received was in good physical condition but the margins were filled with foul scribbling
and vulgar graffiti. That made it a book I could no longer share with my grandkids. It would
have cost as much as I paid for it to ship it back so it's in my recycling bin.
Now the EXCELLENT:
I then ordered a NEW copy of "Homer Price" and the sequel "Centerburg Tales". This time,
without the vandalism of the used copy, I was able to read the story and fondly think back to
my childhood friends who also read the book. We'd discuss the book often. At age eight,
Homer Price, might just be the book that made me be a reader.
These are books that I feel every young boy should read. The stories are fun. They come from
a time when writers did not feel the need to be edgy or include a political or societal agenda.
The book is about kids being kids, before the age of 24/7/365 organized sports, TV, Ipad...
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