Think Mayberry, from the old Andy Griffith show, and you’ve got it just about right. It’s a moseying, quiet locale where the menfolk hang around the barber shop playing checkers on Saturday nights, and young boys gather around the radio to listen to the college football game. The six stories in this book are humorous, affectionate glimpses of life in a podunk Ohio town in the late 1930s. This book, and its sequel, Centerburg Tales, are the only novels McCloskey wrote, and like his prized picture books, they bottle up for us this era and place, masterfully.
Homer Price is the quintessential, dungaree-clad, Midwestern- small-town boy created by Robert McCloskey back in 1943. Sometimes he washes windshields of cars to help his father, and sometimes he sweeps out cabins or takes care of the lunch room to help his mother. Homer’s mother cooks fried chicken and hamburgers in the lunch room and takes care of the tourist cabins while his father takes care of the filling station. OL12613624W Page_number_confidence 87.50 Pages 162 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200314091300 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 255 Scandate 20200307051150 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog marygrove Scribe3_search_id 31927000654662 Tts_version 3.Homer Price, written and illustrated by Robert McCloskeyįirst published in 1943 by The Viking Press About two miles outside of Centerburg where route 56 meets route 56A there lives a boy named Homer.
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