I showed everyone several other books written by Robert McCloskey: Lentil (his first book and one of my favorites), Blueberries for Sal, Make Way for Ducklings, One Morning in Maine, A Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man. Of course, we had to sweeten the book club meeting by serving a heaping plate of mini doughnuts and a pitcher of milk! It is in three parts, and I’ll embed them at the end of this post for your viewing pleasure. I distinctly remembered watching it as a movie during my childhood, and it made a strong impression on me! Lo, and behold, I was researching McCloskey on Wikipedia for some quick notes, and it turns out that that particular chapter (and only that chapter) was made into a short film in 1963! Not only that, but all hail YouTube, there it is. I first read Homer Price as an adult, but this chapter was a crazy deja vu moment for me. Each chapter is also a stand-alone story.
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey was a perfect book choice. Rather than jumping straight into a full chapter book analysis, we chose to chart a single chapter. It was a great discussion, and I’ll try to post our notes from that meeting, as well.) (Last month we read and talked about the picture book Miss Rumphius. It was our first attempt at reading a chapter book at home and coming ready to discuss. We had our fifth meeting of the Book Detectives this evening.
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