Homer Price

by Robert McCloskey

Book Overview

Welcome to Centerburg 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670377295
• ISBN13: 9780670377299
• Release Date: January 1943
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Nostalgic hilarity for young people and adults as well!

You'll roll on the floor holding your splitting sides when you read about Homer Price and the crazy doughnut machine. This is great midwestern 40s stuff, still suitable today for both early teens and self-actualized adults alike. Homer Price is a kid who's oblivious to difficult challenges. His antics causes each of us to mentally return to the days when frutrations were few and obstructions to new dillemmas just simply did not exist. Homer just takes on each situation as it arises and, somehow, things always turn out okay. Originally published in 1943, this is one of my two favorite books for young people, (the other being "The Trolley Car Family," by Eleanor Clymer, 1947). The six short stories in this Homer Price volume include: 1. The Case of the Sensational Scent 2. The Case of the Cosmic Comic 3. The Doughnuts 4. Mystery Yarn 5. Nothing New Under the Sun (Hardly) 6. Wheels of Progress This book is also available in softcover, which is the one I own. You COULD get this book for your kids, especially for boys, but the heck with that idea -- get it for yourself and you won't regret it! My highest recommendation.

Crazy Centerburg, somewhere in the USA.

Homer Price A collection of heartwarming tales from a small town in the USA, as told by one of its younger residents. Shades of Bill Bryson, except that Homer Price predates him by a generation or more. Wonderful, quirky illustrations by the author himself, who has a an eye for detail similar to that of Norman Rockwell.

An undiminished delight

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.

A Classic!

I'm now 65.I love this book. I remember when I was in second grade, and read it for the first time. Donut machine... Pets... Sure, it's "old fashioned." But it has humor, and a delightful, light spin.I love to give this to an 8-year old, or a kid who is just learning to read! The stories are full of a kid's view of a simple world. (The way the world should be to a kid.) Read it yourself. Fun, from start to finish. The illustrations are wonderful. I have to go and get another donut!

A Life Long Favorite

As a superintendent of schools, I am often asked to read to elementary classes during Right to Read Week. I always read the chapter about the doughnut machine to the students, as it was my favorite when I was a kid. After reading the story, I pass out doughnuts to the kids. After all, you can't beat a good book and a good snack.