Homer Price
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 nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at...
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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 nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142404157 (0142404152)
Publish date: December 29th 2005
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 149
Edition language: English
Series: Homer Price (#1)
Aw, it's supercute. Echoes of Mark Twain- there's the surface jokes, and then underneath there's this wry, straight-faced but deeply humorous narrative voice that gives it its real worth. That makes it sound much more of a big deal than it is. It's a sweet children's book from the '40s.
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