Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

Showing posts with label SERIES Homer Price. Show all posts

Showing posts with label SERIES Homer Price. Show all posts

25 May 2017

The Missing McCloskeys

Tonight I took in the Robert McCloskey exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts through 18 June. And I realized I deeply know only half t...

15 September 2014

Another Childhood Illusion Shattered

Tonight I attended Leonard Marcus’s talk about Robert McCloskey on the centenary of the author-illustrator’s birth. (It turns out he was b...

04 November 2010

Homer Price in Capes?

Last week and month I had an intriguing online exchange with author Gail Gauthier about the notion of “ Homer Price in space.” Was it po...

19 October 2010

Homer Price: “a universal and delightful brat”?!

Eric Gugler began a short essay in the November 1943 Horn Book like this: When I thumb through this decidedly provocative bunch of illustr...

02 March 2009

The Pitfalls of Picking an Official State Children’s Book

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting on an Ohio legislator's proposal to make Robert McCloskey 's Lentil the official children'...

15 May 2006

Homer Price, small-town hero

One of the models I keep coming back to for some of my stories are two collections of tall tales by Robert McCloskey : Homer Price (1943) a...

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