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    <body><![CDATA[The author of Homer Price, Robert McCloskey, has written six tales for readers to enjoy: <br/><br/>THE CASE OF THE SENSATIONAL SCENT: Homer catches a group of robbers with the help of his pet skunk, Aroma. <br/>THE CASE OF THE COSMIC COMIC: Homer's friend, Freddy, learns what Homer already knows ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29171823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Robert McCloskey made such great books for kids.  They looked good, they read good.  They even smelled good.  The majority of McCloskey's books are written with very young children in mind, and they're all classics, deservedly so.  &quot;Homer Price&quot; was one of the first books I read that was l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1727883">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This charming book was one of my favorites as a young boy.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, the best part of this book was the illustrations.  McCloskey's style reminds me of Normal Rockwell.  The author has a good sense of humor, too.  But I'd probably give the text alone three stars instead of four.  I read this out loud with my son, and he laughed a lot at some of the incident...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46464207">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[    This book is about a boy named Homer Price. The book takes place in Centerburg. This is about the adventures of Homer. He catches some robbers with nothing but a skunk.<br/>     I connect this to the Simpsons because Homer Simpson and Homer Price always gets into situations. Also, they like donu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42330666">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Katie says: A children's classic from one of the greatest storytellers of the past 60 years! Homer Price is the most unlikely heroine you will ever encounter, but, with the help of his pet skunk, the Sheriff and the boys, Elixir of Life Compound, and a dysfunctional donut machine, who knows just wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80400210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was in 2nd to 3rd grade, my carpool would read this book aloud to us. When we were at a book sale a year ago, I remember those car trips and I asked my mom if I could pick it up. I have always liked that book, and I gave it to Evan once to read, and he said he really liked Homer too. That old...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40169658">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very cute book.  I enjoyed it for the era it was written.  Most kids today would not have a clue why an automatic toaster was so cool. Also, why would people save string?<br/><br/> I love that kind of stuff and going to museums, so this is a bit like Strawberry Girl or Shoefly Pie by Lois Lensky...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48285257">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much everything I remember about this book happens in Chapter 3: The Doughnuts. There's something so satisfying about it. About the machine, the word <em>gadget</em>, the customers filling paper sacks, the illustrations of the donuts forming towers all along the luncheonette counter, drawing the same ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6824074">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1961</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to live in Centerburg when I read this book. I wanted a donut machine. I wanted the book to have more pages. I read it in in a quiet corner of the old Irvington Public Library, curled up in an old, fat leather chair that was hidden from everything else in the world by a wall of books.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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    <body><![CDATA[If you have not read the story about the automatic doughnut machine you are missing out! I remember reading this as a child and I was instantly in love with it. It may have had something to do with the fact that it's a story about doughnuts. . . ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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    <body><![CDATA[While thinking about Henry Huggins and Ramona, I remembered how much I loved Homer Price, too.<br/><br/>This book is a bit old-fashioned now and I am not sure that today's kids would love it as much as I did. Is it historical fiction now?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what, but something made me think of Homer Price this morning, so I thought I'd add it on here.  Loved this big when I was younger.  Still like it.  Great for reading aloud--especially to children. It's funny and fun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...and the doughnuts just kept rolling...&quot;  My father brought out a children's collection from when he was a child when I was about 7 and one of the stories in it was Homer Price and the Doughnuts.  The silly repetition and the colorful characters made this my favorite story to read over ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5106280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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    <body><![CDATA[I've actually seen a donut machine similar to the one in this book.  A cart in Cameron Park, conveyor belts and levers measuring dough, dropping it into a pool of grease - it was endlessly fascinating.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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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  <date_added>Sun Nov 15 18:42:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only recently thought of this book (these stories) again. They were from the 1940s and I ran across the book in a school room when I was around 12 or 13. Homer runs afoul of snake oil salesmen, meet's &quot;current&quot; superheros, has trouble with a never ending doughnut machine and other unusua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77907920">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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