More Books by Robert McCloskey
Blueberries for Sal
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Recommended Ages: 4-7
About the Book: The adventures of a little girl and a baby bear while hunting for blueberries with their mothers one bright summer day. All the color and flavor of the sea and pine-covered Maine countryside.
Homer Price
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Recommended Ages: 8-12
About the Book: Homer Price lives two miles out of Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A, but most of his friends and relatives live in town. They include Aunt Aggy and Uncle Ulysses, the Sheriff and the boys, Miss Terwilliger, and Miss Naomi Enders. While Centerburg is not exactly nosey, precious little happens that the good citizens do not know.
Time of Wonder
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Recommended Ages: 4-8
About the Book: Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of Penobscot Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day...So begins McCloskey's classic story of one summer on a Maine island.
One Morning in Maine
Publisher: Viking Children's Books
Recommended Ages: 4-7
About the Book: As we follow the story of Sal and his lost tooth we feel as refreshed as though we had spent a day with his family on their island
Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Recommend Ages: 6-8
About the Book: 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!
Lentil
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Recommend Ages: 6-8
About the Book: Lentil cannot sing or even whistle; longing to make music in some fashion, he provides himself with a harmonica and practices constantly wherever he is, especially in the bathtub, because there his tone is improved 100 percent. A book that, along with its fun, truly illustrates the American scene.
Burt Dow Deep-Water Man: A Tale of the Sea in the Classic Tradition
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Recommend Ages: 3-8
About the Book: Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to save him and the gull from a raging storm
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