Robert McCloskey

On a summer day in Maine a little girl and a bear cub wander away from their blueberry-picking mothers and mistake the other mother for their own.

Centerburg is a small town somewhere in Middle America, but there is nothing ordinary about it. Something unusual is always going on. And you can be sure Homer Price is in the center of things, putting them right with his own brand of common sense. There's the time Uncle Hercules takes the Gravitty-Bitties challenge. He almost retires from his famous story-telling then and there except for Homer's quick thinking. And when Dulcy plants some valuable

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