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- Shelve Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
- More Homer Price from Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey, 1970s , Ex Library Paperback Vintage Children's Book
- Homer Price Series
- More Homer Price
- Homer Price by Robert McCloskey & Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald by Clifford Hicks Young Adult Fiction Chapter Book
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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...
Often he is just there, in the background, watching things happen. The adults in the story are the ones who make the messes and cause the problems, while Homer looks on and occasionally steps in to take up the slack (though he's far from a Gary Stu hero-child). Most of the active characters are male, with women in the background providing meals and the occasional comment . These tales are a 4 star read in the illustrated book for 10 & younger. As an audiobook, it was well narrated & pretty good. The illustrations & a first solo book or reading with an adult really make it, though.
Shelve Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
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.
It’s also home to a whole host of one-of-a-kind items made with love and extraordinary care. While many of the items on Etsy are handmade, you’ll also find craft supplies, digital items, and more. Centerburg holds its yearly pageant, as the locals celebrate both their history and a new, modern subdivision of prefabricated houses. Each are threatened when a promised set of street signs are not posted on time, leaving the residents lost on their way home. He does odd jobs like raking leaves, and sweeping up the diner or the nearby barber shop.
More Homer Price from Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey, 1970s , Ex Library Paperback Vintage Children's Book
It was there that he got the idea for Make Way for Ducklings, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1942. During World War II, he was a sergeant in the Army. Stationed in Alabama, he was assigned to draw training pictures.
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.
Homer Price Series
If you have a comic book collection laying around, pick out a couple to share. Or graphic novel books in your home library. Or ask family or friends for comic books to share. How can a boy and his pet skunk be any match for a four-man team of robbers that comes to the town of Centerburg? It's one thing to read about the mighty Super-Duper in 10¢ superhero comics, but what ...
Sometimes he is also hired by his uncle to tend to the labor-saving devices in his cafe and mix doughnut batter. His main job is helping out in his father's business, a motor court, where Homer also resides. If you haven't read this since you were a kid, pick it up. It'll bring back great memories of your childhood reading, but will be much more than just a nostalgic trip back to your old bookshelf. These stories are fun and imaginative, but they also have teeth. Reading it today, I realise that the stories really aren't about Homer's adventures so much as his interaction with the townfolks.
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.
"Wheels of Progress" is still as pointed a commentary on the demise of craftsmanship in a mass-produced world as it was in 1943, when the book was published. This ranks up there with the brilliant political satire hidden in Oliver Butterworth's The Enormous Egg. I read this over and over when I was just a wee bairn. Now, about 40 years later, I picked it up again. The stories are still delightful and funny, told in an engaging, childlike manner.
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.
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.
Loved it so much I am off to the library to check out Centerburg Tales. My niece and nephew saw me reading it in the van and they wanted to know what it was about as the pictures in it looked funny and cute. My nephew thought 150 pages was really long. I read this in the car today on the way back from a family reunion and I didn't have to drive.
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.
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey - Signed (Hardcover)
This would be a good story to read aloud with an 8 year old you love. It might start some interesting conversations, particularly if the adult reader can remember life before the Internet. I love how the author mixed other stories into this book including the Greek saga the Odyssey and the Germany fairy tale The Pied Piper of Hamlin. The best thing about this book is the strangeness!
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