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Make Way for McCloskey

Centerburg Tales

Homer Price (Puffin Modern Classics)

Lentil

Qu'arrive-t-il quand la Petite Lily et sa maman rencontrent une maman ourse et son ourson? Robert McCloskey crée ainsi l'un des albums les plus aimés de plusieurs générations d'enfants américains. Cling ! clang ! clung ! Lily et sa maman s'en vont cueillir des myrtilles pour en faire de bonnes confitures. Mais quand Lily s'aventure sur l'autre versant de la colline, elle y découvre une maman ourse qui se prépare à résister au froid des longs hivers. Dans le même temps, la maman de Lily est suivie par un petit ours qui lui aussi s'intéresse beaucoup aux myrtilles. Avec quel enfant chacune des mères regagnera-t-elle son logis ?

Centerburg might be your town, but there’s a delightful difference—Homer Price, Dulcy Dooner, Uncle Ulysses, the flustered sheriff, and the pompous judge all live there. And that’s why in Centerburg, along with the routine of small-town life, the most preposterous things keep happening.

A mad scientist grows ragweed taller than fire ladders, a jukebox gone wild sets a whole town dancing, and a slick salesman dupes the citizenry with “Ever So Much More So” magic elixir. But nothing fazes Homer Price! He solves these problems with a good supply of common sense—and ingenuity.

It’s not that the folks in Centerburg are especially nosy; it’s just that in a small town everyone seems to know everything. But Homer Price does know more about what’s going on than anyone, because he’s usually in the middle of things…. And whenever there’s a problem Homer puts everything aright with his own common sense and ingenuity—like the time Uncle Heracles jumped out of his clothes and landed in another state, or a slick salesman duped the whole town, or the whole town started speaking in jingles. Nothing fazes Homer Price!

Mr. McCloskey's characters have warmth and kindness and a healthy curiosity; but they are not above a few minor faults and foibles. They are unmistakenably alive. Like Mr. McCloskey himself, they are perpetually amused by the everyday hazards and discrepancies around them.
Ages 8-12