![]() ![]() ![]() Excellent for independent reading or reading aloud, and improves upon each visit to Centerburg. A companion to Homer Price, these imaginative and outlandish tales from all-American Centerbury will. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative. ![]() The black and white illustrations are delightful. Centerburg Tales audiobook, by Robert McCloskey. By Robert McCloskey, Author & Illustrator. In each episode, Homer is the humble hero. Could Grandpa Herc’s story about a giant leap be verified by a breakfast food company’s experiment? It also exaggerates the potential of ordinary frustrations like ragweed allergies or a song getting stuck in your head (I love the solution to the latter dilemma being found in a librarian’s worst nightmare, looking for a “black-backed book that’s a little bit battered, or a brown-backed book, that’s a little bit battered.”). ![]() While Homer Price, though fiction, has a down-home, realistic feel of a boy’s experience, Centerburg Tales explores the tangibility of tall tales. Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) wrote and illustrated some of the most honored and enduring childrens books ever published. Viking, 1979, 191 pages.Ĭenterburg Tales is set in the same, small Midwestern town as Homer Price and uses many of the same characters. ![]()
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