![]() The wacky tales in Homer Price are absurd, but carry a great deal of humor (and fantastic illustrations) and the sort of shenanigans of a small town that are exaggerated just enough to make it absurd, but not enough to make it lose its down-to-earth, realistic feel. “Absurd” is perhaps a better one, and also describes the genre of the book itself. Rating: 3/5 “Preposterous,” as the jacket summary states, is a good word to describe Homer Price. No matter how old or young the reader, the strange skullduggery of the Sensational Scent, the extravagant affair of the Doughnuts, the breathtaking suspense of “Mystery Yarn,” the doleful defeat of The Super-Duper, the puzzling problem o Michael Murphy’s musical Mousetrap, and the Great Pageant of One Hundred and Fifty Years of Centerburg Progress Week, will reduce him to helpless laughter. ![]() In six preposterous tales, Robert McCloskey takes a good look at the face of mid-western America with humorous and affectionate eyes. While Centerburg is not exactly nosey, precious little happens that the good citizens do not know. They include Aunt Aggy and Uncle Ulysses, the Sheriff and the boys, Miss Terwilliger, Miss Naomi Enders, great-great-great granddaughter of Ezekiel Ender who founded Centerburg and who owned the precious formula for making Cough Syrup and Elixir of Life Compound. Homer Price lives two miles out of Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A, but most of his friends and relatives live in town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Homer Price, by Robert McCloskey, was published in 1943 by Viking. ![]()
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