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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
We read this as part of our Sonlight core. My girls loved hearing about Homer's adventures. We'll read this again!
Problems - we all have them. Home Price is pretty good at coming up with solutions For instance - robbers and a skunk - how would you solve that? And then, there was the time the donut making machine was broken. Homer fixed the machine, but then encountered a new problem - the machine made way too many donuts and then a diamond bracelet got involved. See how Homer fixes these problems and more in this funny tale.
I read and re-read Homer Price's adventures, I loved them all. There was something great in his way of looking at things. I remember a librarian reading one of the stories in class and feeling all smug and superior that I had read it already.
Unsurprisingly, not as good as I remember it being as a kid.
A heartwarming and mostly wholesome set of short stories from the 1940s about small town America. One of the stories has a "town pageant" about the history of the town, with some pretty uncomfortable stereotypes about Native Americans (this caused me to knock this down from 5 stars to 4, as it is a very minor part of the story), but on the whole, this was an enjoyable book. My 9-year-old son wants to read the second volume ASAP . . .
Reading for a Child/Parent book club. Enjoyable early reader. Really a 3.5, but will re-evaluate after book club.
It was not very popular with the children, only one boy admitted to liking it after a girl said she didn't and 2 boys had not finished it.
We did a quiz, had a discussion and I gave some facts about McCloskey, did a few anagrams, Readers' Theater, and a short smell guessing game.
It was not very popular with the children, only one boy admitted to liking it after a girl said she didn't and 2 boys had not finished it.
We did a quiz, had a discussion and I gave some facts about McCloskey, did a few anagrams, Readers' Theater, and a short smell guessing game.
This was one of three or four books that were lying around in my grandmother's house when I moved in with her as a child. The pile of books had been abandoned by her grown stepchildren. This one was the first one I read because it was such an intriguing cover (not the one pictured here). it showed the titular Homer admiring his job of defacing a marble bust of the Greek poet by the same name; he had written "Price" below the engraved name. It intrigued me because of the name being so old. I remember enjoying the book although I don't remember any details. I think might hunt it up for my 10 year old.
I re-read Homer Price quite a few times during my grade school years.
And now here I re-read it again, using my cynical grown-up eyes.
Homer is such a good boy! He thinks badly of no one, and he always knows how to avoid trouble. He is good friends with the town sheriff, and his hobby is building radios, when he is not in school or helping his family with their work.
He lives in a world that has crime and argument, but readers don't see injustice or violence in Homer's world.
Part of me would like to see a book where Homer is grown-up, and I'm wondering what kind of person he has become. But at the same time, I don't want to know. I'm afraid that his childhood self would dislike or pity the grownup, given the changing generations that have come and gone.
And now here I re-read it again, using my cynical grown-up eyes.
Homer is such a good boy! He thinks badly of no one, and he always knows how to avoid trouble. He is good friends with the town sheriff, and his hobby is building radios, when he is not in school or helping his family with their work.
He lives in a world that has crime and argument, but readers don't see injustice or violence in Homer's world.
Part of me would like to see a book where Homer is grown-up, and I'm wondering what kind of person he has become. But at the same time, I don't want to know. I'm afraid that his childhood self would dislike or pity the grownup, given the changing generations that have come and gone.
Classic. Handed the book to my son as soon as I was finished!
Five stars simply for the doughnut chapter. *chef’s kiss*