![]() ![]() ![]() There are quite a lot of euphemisms (gosh, golly, blamed, heck, durned, and dang) and some similar colloquial expressions (dad blamed, dad gommit, doggone it, and dad gum), along with a couple of references to chewing tobacco and smoking a pipe. However, Homer is always there to help solve whatever problems arise. ![]() It might be Grandpa Herc’s celebrated jump out of his clothes all the way into Indiana, Dulcy Dooner’s giant ragweeds which threaten the entire community, the slick salesman who dupes the citizens with his “Ever So Much More So” magic elixir, or the mysterious jukebox record which sets the whole town singing and dancing. These stories have the aura of tall tales, and I suspect that everyone who has read the book has his favorite one. Centerburg Tales contains the further adventures of Homer, his friends, and his family. Homer lives outside of Centerburg, a small town in Ohio near the Indiana border, where he and his friend Freddy go to school, he helps out in Uncle Ulysses’s lunchroom, and he listens to Grandpa Hercules’s stories. I read McClosky’s Homer Price a few years ago and really enjoyed it. ![]()
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