Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

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• More Homer Price from Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey, 1970s , Ex Library Paperback Vintage Children's Book
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More Homer Price from Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey, 1970s , Ex Library Paperback Vintage Children's Book

I don't remember loving this as a child, but then, I probably thought it was too much of a boys' book. The irony is, that it isn't really even so much a kids' book. We offer thousands of quality curricula, workbooks, and references to meet your homeschooling needs.

Freddy is unable to understand that "The Super-Duper" is an ordinary actor in a costume, and expects him to be capable of super feats. Homer, however, quietly displays a more mature view of the hero. I keep this one around for the doughnut chapter alone. This charming book was one of my favorites as a young boy. Stories extolling midwestern America are about as rare as songs for brown eyed girls, both of which are so ubiquitous we often fail to notice their charm.

More Homer Price From Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey

While there, they get to see a movie & meet a star. One character has to crank his 30 year old car to start it. They're, short, fun, & I enjoyed them as a kid immensely. Not quite as good as The Mad Scientists' Club, but close.

Miss Terwilliger is a comely and likeable spinster who loves to knit. Both the sheriff and Uncle "Telly" Telemachus want to marry Miss Terwilliger, but she is unable to decide which of them she likes better. Eventually the two suitors hold a contest to see who has the largest ball of string, with the winner getting to marry Miss Terwilliger. She ends up beating them both with her collection of saved yarn, but still marries Uncle Telly, who came in second.

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By chance, the robbers are staying at the same motor court, and Homer sees it as his chance to stop them and claim a cash reward in order to build all sorts of radios and an expensive television. Although Homer is eager to profit from the reward, he is also genuinely interested in bringing the robbers to justice, as they stole from a man he knew. His classic style of drawings were scattered throughout the book, adding to the stories and the humor. Each chapter is easily it's own "episode" so instead of turning on the television tonight, read a chapter of this with the family! A stranger with the proverbial "better mousetrap" arrives in Centerburg, offering his services to the town.

Robert McCloskey was born in Hamilton, Ohio on September 14, 1914. In 1932, he won a scholarship to the Vesper George Art School in Boston. Two years later he was commissioned to execute bas-reliefs for the municipal building in his hometown. Then he moved to New York to study at the National Academy of Design. He painted for two summers on Cape Cod, but only sold a few water colors during that time. After meeting with a children's book editor, he moved back Ohio and began to draw and paint the things around him in everyday life.

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Homer caught my eye because of the doughnuts- and ever since then I can't eat a doughnut without thinking of him and my stolen book moments. I’m glad you like to read my books, and I hope you will continue to keep a close watch for mistakes. Another mistake I make quite often in drawings is buttoning girls’ and boys’ clothes on the wrong sides. I can never remember which way they are supposed to go — it’s much simpler to draw in a zipper. Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.

I think I have one more story and then I am done with Robert McCloskey's catalog. It was been wonderful to read all these stories. These are cute stories about Homer and Robert McCloskey paints middle American in the 40s so well. They are funny and I think the younger kids would really enjoy them and others too.

Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you? Many sellers on Etsy offer personalized, made-to-order items. The first thing Homer hears upon assembling his new homemade radio is news of a robbery. He and his pet skunk meet the robbers the next day, and the encounter leads to their identification.

You can even plan a presentation if you’d like for relatives or friends. Publishing a book involves a lot of counting too, and when we counted up the number of lines of type and the number of pictures and the number of pages, we found that there was some space left over. Just enough space for the picture of the robbers in the bed. I was just about to go into the army and I had to rush to get the picture finished.

Don't recall them as a kid, but I wouldn't have gotten them then. Anyway, there's enough here to keep even adults interested at times. It seems as if they're available in ebook format, too. Listening to them as an adult, far removed from the period in which they were written, was even more entertaining in some ways. Comics were a dime & Homer's dad runs a service station. Homer rides into town in a horse-drawn wagon with his friend Freddy & his little brother to pick up a box at the post office.

And the illustrations done by the author are some of the best I have ever seen! Parents everywhere should add this book to their child's collection. Robert McCloskey made such great books for kids. The majority of McCloskey's books are written with very young children in mind, and they're all classics, deservedly so.

Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk. Readers join Homer Price in six preposterous tales that take a good look at the face of Midwestern America through humorous and affectionate eyes. Young and old will find these tales a treat. The literature guide will also bring the study of this book to life. While reader tastes are far too varied for us to ever call a book a "sure thing" for everyone, literary awards can offer useful signposts...

As a young reader, I loved catching onto ideas not explicitly stated. Who wouldn't want to bestow this memory on their child? Who wouldn't want to return to it in adulthood? I wanted to live in Centerburg when I read this book. I read it in in a quiet corner of the old Irvington Public Library, curled up in an old, fat leather chair that was hidden from everything else in the world by a wall of books.