[.ca] Penguin Modern Classics Homer Price (ISBN 0142404152)

The donet mishing is going wakow, how can it be fixed.:
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.

Ths book is realy really good:
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.

I'm A Great Big Help'in Of Me:
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.

Homer Price: A Really Good Book:
I really liked this book. There's nothing really bad about this book. I think this would be a great book for ages nine and up and who likes stories that have problems in it. Every chapter has at least one problem in it. In chapter one Homer finds a skunk and names her Aroma. In chapter two, Super Duper, a comic character, is coming to perform in Centerburg. After Super Duper performs, Homer and his friend ride home on a horse-pulled wagon. Super Duper's car is right behind them but breaks down. Is Super Duper strong enough to push his car?

A great book of fun stories...:
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!