Homer Price

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Summary: Ths book is realy really good
Review: Hello i first red this book when i was 7 yeers old now i am 46 and a lawyer but i still smile wen i reed about the donut mashine!! i think it is a good book and i am sory mr. McCloskey died today. i wuold like to thank him for all the fun he gav me and i bet lots of other boys and girls too!!! i know God will tak care of him becaus he must of made so many kids happy wif his storys. this is a good book and i wuold recomend it to anyone who likes funny stories about reglar american kids.

Robert McCloskey really did pass away today (July 1, 2003), and I thought it would be appropriate to pay tribute to him and his wonderful work in words I might have used when I first read "Homer Price" in 1964. I'm not quite sure how things are set up in Heaven, but I'd LIKE to think that right about now Mr. McCloskey is having a cozy chat with L. Frank Baum, A.A. Milne, and all the other authors whose works have brought joy to the hearts of children down through the years. Sort of welcoming him to club, as it were.

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Summary: The donet mishing is going wakow, how can it be fixed.
Review: Homer price is a book full of little storys. My favorite one is where the donut michin would not stop making doanuts and a braclet was in one of them on acsident. THere are lots of stories in it. Theres one where tow people are fiting over a women and they win the women if there ball of string is longer. The women enters the race to. There is one where Homer is a Hereo. I was reding this for battle of the Books and this was for the grad leavle 7 but evrybody who read it(at least my mom and I) ageed that it was a grade leavle 4. This book is great and easy to read so go get a copy and start reading.

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Summary: for all ages
Review: I don't think Centerburg Tales and Homer Price are only for young people, I enjoy them thoroughly and I am 33 years old now. Have read them several times. - Also great for reading aloud to young people / kids! SUCH fun!

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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: I first read this in elementary school, but years later I bought it again. The stories have funny twists with great imaginative properties, like the "Ever-so-much-more-so" powder which enhances everything on which it is sprinkled, or the giant ragweed plants which prompt someone to suggest air-conditioning the whole town.

Read it to someone, give it to someone. Should be part of every juvenile fiction library right along side Beverly Cleary, Encyclopedia Brown, and the like.

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Summary: Homer does it again
Review: My book review is about a boy named Homer Price. He lives in a small town two miles out of Centerburg with his friends and relatives. The story starts with Homer discovering a skunk in his kitchen drinking his Tabby cat's milk. When Homer decides to keep him as a pet, they start to go on great adventures to solve the case of the stolen case of money and shaving acessories. The two also run into Homer and his best friend Freddy's comic hero, the Super Duper. When the boys are in enough mess already, their doughnut machine goes bonkers and makes millions of doughnuts. At the same month an annual yarn tournament was held with people from all over the town with yarn balls as tall as houses. This book is great because it goes on and on with other hilarious stories. Like the mouse man and the area with all identical houses.
In my opinion I really enjoy this book because it's very humorous and I've read it before when I was 10. This book also brings a lot of memories and cracks me up just thinking about it. This book is so entertaining that I wish my city was just like Homer's. I also admire the entertaining mysteries Homer and his friends solve with the friendly aid of Homer's skunk Aroma. Homer Price is truly one of the best books I've read and still is. I can't wait to recommend it to a friend.
In this book, it was hard to choose a favorite part, butI have to say when the doughnut machine didn't turn off. Thats because everybody started to eat then panic with a million more doughnuts left. Then They started to sell two doughnuts for 5 cents.Until a wealthy woman claims that her bracelet is in one of the doughnuts, so they make a $100 reward for it. When the word went out the doughnuts started to sell, there was no luck. Until, a poor hoboe boy found the bracelet.

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Summary: Homer Price: A Really Good Book
Review: Robert McCloskey's Homer Price (1943) is a collection of six short stories about all-American boy Homer Price of Centerburg, U.S.A. Probably a product of McCloskey's own nostalgia for small town life, the book may remind readers of Elizabeth Enright's Thimble Summer (1939), in which young girl protagonist Garnet Linden discovers the adventures of every day life in the rural Midwest.

Homer Price is a quietly confident, unbefuddled, and laconic boy around whom a series of somewhat unusual events occur. In the most memorable episode, Homer tends his progress-seeking but work-shy uncle's lunch counter while its newfangled automatic donut machine, short a piece of its machinery, turns out thousands and thousands of donuts as crowds gather to watch. In other stories, Homer captures a team of robbers with the help of pet skunk Aroma, participates in the winding of what is thought to be the largest ball of string in existence, and helps the sheriff discover the identity of the mysterious stranger that has come to town.

Homer's hobby is building radios, which is significant, as the book's world is a pre-television landscape where simple pleasures such as getting a haircut at the local barber shop, pitching horseshoes, or reading the latest issue of Super-Duper comic book at the soda fountain are the highlights of the day, and the autumn county fair the highlight of the year. Throughout, McCloskey subtly weaves the idea of inevitable change, represented not only by the unstoppable donut machine, but by the 100-house suburb of identical, prefabricated houses (each has 'a print of Whistler's Mother over the fireplace') that sprouts up within a week on historical Centerburg land. But McCloskey honors the past while accepting the present and anticipating the future: there are as many mildly progressive citizens of Centerburg as there are mildly traditional ones.

All the pieces are charming, light, funny, and pleasant. While there are no heavy-handed messages, good manners, strength of character, and acceptance of eccentricity and difference are stressed. McCloskey also quietly and humorously comments on courting and marriage rituals, politics, and the role of boredom and gossip in small town life. Though the focus is on Homer, the book is in fact about all of the citizens of Centerburg, with Homer really only one of the crowd.

Adults will enjoy rediscovering Homer Price and sharing it with children, who may see some merit in Price's unhurried sense of wonder about life, the world, and the simple things around him.

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Summary: The donet mishing is going wakow, how can it be fixed.
Review: set in a time when having a shunk for a pet was OK, when fried chicken and doughnuts came with every meal and a small town was a safe place to live. Where magazines cost a dime, the sheriff was somebody you could trust and you could still burn leaves! A town of doughnut making machines, mouse traps that don't harm the mice and no lynchings.
For ages 9 and up, a great book for boys and girls. If they, or you, enjoyed it I would also suggest getting 'Centerburg Tales', which has more stories on Homer Price and the folks of Centerburg. Frankly, there is no way to give this book a bad review!

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Summary: An undiminished delight
Review: This book should be at the top of your purchase list for every child in the 7 to 10 age group. Homer is an all-American boy in the all-American small town of Centerburg, somewhere in the all-American midwest, and in six hilarious escapades he keeps the kids (and grownup readers, too) enthralled. The stories are funny, engaging and original, and the illustrations, by the author, are priceless. Everyone will have their favorite chapter in this book; my own favorite was "The Doughnuts"; decades after I first read it as a child, it's still as fresh and funny as it was way back when. I bought this book for my son when he was seven and he was in stitches from the first page to the last. "Homer" is one of the all-time champs.

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Summary: Fifth grade class enjoyed reading about Homer's adventures.
Review: We are grade 5T from Holland Elementary School in Holland, Massachusetts. There are 16 students in our class. Most of us are 10 to 11 years old. We read Homer Price for our first literature study book of the year.

The book is about a young boy and six of his marvelous adventures. The stories take place in the 1930's. The setting is the small town of Centerburg. Homer has adventures with the Sheriff, his Uncle Ulysses, and friends Freddy and Louis. They meet unusual people like Mr. Murphy, the Super-Duper, and Miss Terwilliger.

Here are some things our class liked about the book. We liked the stories because they were funny and interesting. The class liked all the Sheriff's spoonerisms. We liked how the stories were short. A lot of people thought that Aroma was a really neat pet. The class liked how all the stories were mainly about Homer.

Here are some things that our class did not like about the book. Some of our class did not like how old-fashioned the stories were. Some of us are more interested in contemporary stories. Some of us thought the stories were a little too long. We found some words were very long and complicated. It was kind of hard.