Homer Price

*This is not a comic or even a picture book but McCloskey's brushwork is lovely isn't it. Also: donuts!

By Robert McCloskey. Published by Puffin. 

Softcover, 150 pages, Prose w/B&W illustrations, 1943 (this edition published 2005)

Welcome to Centerburg!  Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want;  where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk.

The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations!