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McCloskey made such great books for kids, They looked good, they read good, They even smelled good. The majority of McCloskey's books are written with very young children in mind, and they're all classics, deservedly so, "Homer Price" was one of the first books I read that was longer thanpages and didn't feature paintings of enormous caterpillars committing acts of meta vandalism throughout, and it's both an ideal stepping stone and a fun read no matter how long you've been reading big boy books.
I'm hungry right now just thinking about all those donuts, Totally fun read aloud. 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.
This charming book was one of my favorites as a young boy, Super fun. Not as homey as Henry Huggins but silly and wholesome, Very sweet! The best thing about this book is the strangeness! On the surface, this appears to be tales of a boy growing up in a small town, but every chapter has something a little weird going on, in a wholesome, aboveboard, "what do you mean, something is strange" kind of way.
As a young reader, I loved catching onto ideas not explicitly stated, I remember finding this so much funnier a decade ago, . . It's always disappointing when that happens,

McCloskey can draw, though obviously, The illustrations are fabulous. These tales are astar read in the illustrated book foramp younger, As an audiobook, it was well narrated amp pretty good, The illustrations amp a first solo book or reading with an adult really make it, though,

They're, short, fun, amp I enjoyed them as a kid immensely, Not quite as good as sitelinkThe Mad Scientists' Club, but close, The lazy sheriff with his spoonerisms could get old quickly, but I didn't mind them in these stories, The crazy uncle with his penchant for gadgets was fun, too, Centerberg is obviously built just to make Homer shine, but it's all in fun,

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 amp Homer's dad runs a service station, Homer rides into town in a horsedrawn wagon with his friend Freddy amp his little brother to pick up a box at the post office, While there, they get to see a movie amp meet a star, One character has to crank hisyear old car to start it, Definitely a different time.

The last story has modern manufacturing techniques being applied to housing, It's a new idea amp highly touted, The trees were all cut down ampidentical houses were quickly built, They were immediately filled by 'deserving renters', but at the end no one can find their home without street signs that a union man, who held to unnecessary rules to jack up the price, hasn't put up since he got drunk.
In the end, everyone seems happy, but there are plenty of digs at postwar housing to go around,

I wonder how many other stories have such in them, 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, Highly recommended. I read this over and over when I was just a wee bairn, Now, aboutyears later, I picked it up again, The stories are still delightful and funny, told in an engaging, childlike manner, They are everything I remember,

But wait, there's more, Where did all that social satire come from I don't remember that being there when I was nine, "The Case of the Cosmic Comic" is dark, showing the shattering of a young boy's dream of his hero, "Wheels of Progress" is still as pointed a commentary on the demise of craftsmanship in a massproduced world as it was in, when the book was published.
This ranks up there with the brilliant political satire hidden in Oliver Butterworth's The Enormous Egg,

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, The author of Homer Price, Robert McCloskey, has written six tales for readers to enjoy:

THE CASE OF THE SENSATIONAL SCENT: Homer catches a group of robbers with the help of his pet skunk, Aroma.

THE CASE OF THE COSMIC COMIC: Homer's friend, Freddy, learns what Homer already knows about comic book characters,
THE DOUGHNUTS: Homer can't stop his Uncle Ulysses doughnut machine! Now there are way too many doughnuts, and a lost bracelet cooked inside one of them.
Let the eating begin!
MYSTERY YARN: Homer's Uncle Telly and the sheriff both save string, Whoever becomes the World's Champion String Saver is supposed to win the hand of Miss Terwilliger in marriage, But what does Miss Terwilliger think of this little agreement
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: There's a stranger in town, Is he a nice man, or a fugitive in disguise Homer is on the case,
WHEELS OF PROGRESS: A new part of town is built in Centerburg,

I loved this book ever since grade school, and The Doughnuts is the tale I enjoyed most, I remember that my teacher read this book in a way that made the characters come to life for me especially the sheriff, who gets his words a bit twisted every now and then.
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.

I keep this one around for the doughnut chapter alone, I reread Homer Price quite a few times during my grade school years,

And now here I reread it again, using my cynical grownup eyes,

Homer is such a good boy! He thinks badly of no one, and he always knows how to avoid trouble, He is good friends with the town sheriff, and his hobby is building radios, when he is not in school or helping his family with their work.


He lives in a world that has crime and argument, but readers don't see injustice or violence in Homer's world,

Part of me would like to see a book where Homer is grownup, and I'm wondering what kind of person he has become, But at the same time, I don't want to know, I'm afraid that his childhood self would dislike or pity the grownup, given the changing generations that have come and gone, If you think of Opie and his life in Mayberry, you'll get a pretty good idea of what this book is like, A funloving, adventuresome boy in a small, downhome town going to school, working at the lunch room to make a dime or two, catching robbers with his pet skunk and discovering just how many doughnuts his Uncle Ulysses' newfangled machine can make.


Each chapter is easily it's own "episode" so instead of turning on the television tonight, read a chapter of this with the family! Laughs included.


Ages:

Cleanliness: "Gosh" is said eight times, "Shucks" is said twice. "Gee. " "Golly" is said twice. "Zeus" is said three times, "Heck. " "Oh, gracious. " "Goll durnitt" and variations are said three times, "Goodness only knows. " "Geeminy Christmas. " An illustration shows two boys in only loincloths costumed as Indians,

Like my reviews I also have hundreds of detailed reports that I offer too, These reports give a complete breakdown of everything in the book, so you'll know just how clean it is or isn't, I also have Clean Guides downloadable PDFs which enable you to clean up your book before reading it! Visit my website: The Book Radar, This book was written inand chronicles the adventures of Homer, a young boy living in a small town, In one chapter, Homer helps to arrest some thieves with the help of his pet skunk, My favorite chapter involves a doughnut machine that won't stop making doughnuts, This is a very sweet book that made me think of the Andy Griffith show, Life seemed to be so much simpler back in those days, I read this as part of an extreme challengeread a book from your childhood, Homer played a front and center part in my childhood, How can you ever let a donut pass over your lips without thinking of him Homer Priceis the fictional allAmerican boy of the's, He lives two miles outside of Centerburg, Ohio, at the intersection of routesandA, He helps his parents take care of their tourist court and in his free time, assembles radio sets, He keeps a pet skunk named "Aroma, " Along the way he makes the acquaintance of a movie superhero, looks for a valuable necklace somewhere in the middle of a million doughnuts that came rolling out of his uncle's automatic doughnut machine, and helps Centerburg celebrate itsth anniversary.
While these "tales" are not perfect all the black kids seem to be poor, for example, they are very much of their time and place and usually quite funny.


HOMER PRICE has a sequel, CENTERBURG TALES,
I wanted to live in Centerburg when I read this book, I wanted a donut machine, I wanted the book to have more pages, 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.
I read this in the car today on the way back from a family reunion and I didn't have to drive, This is about Centerburg and Homer Price who makes his residence there, The town is rather funny and Homer is dependable and a fixit kind of guy,

He has a pet skunk he has tamed that became famous when it helped him catch some robbers, There is a fancy donut machine somewhat like Krispy Kreme donuts assembly line and it puts out too many donuts, but luckily, Homer has the idea to sell them all.
There is the mysterious Pied Piper character that shows up to get rid of the mice in town and Homer figures out how to take care of that.
There is a chapter about a superhero coming to town with a movie and it turns out he needs a little help Homer can give him.
One of the quirkiest ones istownspeople in a love triangle hold a contest at the local fairgrounds to see who has the biggest ball of string or yarn.
I think it's my favorite as it's simply so interesting and Homer probably has the least to do in it, The last chapter is a weird town building episode, It was not my favorite one, I'm not sure how to really summarize it,

The pictures are cute, 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 thoughtpages was really long,

These are cute stories about Homer and Robert McCloskey paints middle American in thes so well, They are funny and I think the younger kids would really enjoy them and others too,

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, .