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Summary: A good book
Review: I've been reading this book at school and I love it so much that I want to buy it.
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Summary: HOMER: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE!
Review: In what is now part of America's film folklore legacy, "It's a Wonderful Life", Clarence the Angel(in training) refers to his copy of "Tom Sawyer", and his concern for its condition after rescuing George Bailey. This is a tribute to one of the masterpieces of American Literature, and though I love "Tom Sawyer", my personal masterpiece of literature to appeal to young and old alike is "Homer Price" Aroma lives!
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Summary: A must-have for your child's bookshelf.
Review: My 4-1/2 year old son loves this book. Each day for about the past two weeks, he has spent his quiet time after school reading about Homer. He especially likes the chapter about making doughnuts. I recommend this book highly.
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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: Great childhood memories!
Review: My sister & I had this book in hardcover about 25 years ago, and it was one of our favorites! We would read the stories over and over again, and we never grew tired of them. I am really pleased to see that it still exists! I would highly recommend this collection of stories to anyone!
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Summary: I'm A Great Big Help'in Of Me
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: A great book of fun stories...
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: It was magnificent I loved it.
Review: The Book was great! Whenever I read a new story in it I felt like I was going in to a new adventure. My favorite story is about an old man that comes to town with a big truck, and he had a big tarp on the back of it. The town had a problem with mice. The old man whistled a tune and some mice jumped out of a drawer and followed him to his truck. He took the tarp off and there was a house for mice that looked like a big organ, and it played that same tune the old man whistled. All the mice in the town follwed the truck as it drove away. That was the end of the story.
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Summary: There's only one flaw in this book:
Review: The fact that you must find an open doughnut shop after reading it, regardless of the time of day or night. Otherwise, this is a true classic of children's literature and justly deserving of being in print after all these decades. [The doughnut story is the favorite of most people, including me. Somewhere along the line, though, something occurred to me: couldn't someone have pulled the plug out of the wall? I've had the same thought every time the Holodeck on the Starship Enterprise "locks up" and can't be turned off ;) ].
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