The other day I posted a quote from Robert McCloskey. So, when emilily paged me a few min ago to say that he had passed away I thought it was kinda funky that I'd just posted something by him. When reading the article on his death I was struck by the number of things he'd written that I didn't really remember were by him. Of course I blame much of that on being a young kid at the time I read much of his stuff. I think Make Way for Ducklings was probably the first thing I read by him. My parents had this old copy that I think belonged to one of them growing up. It certainly wasn't new when I got a hold of it. The book of his that I remember the most though was Homer Price. I read tons as a kid, but there were a few books that I'll always remeber and that was one of them. I also remember reading the second book Centerburg Tales, though that one didn't seem to leave as much of an impact. I can't wait till my nephew starts reading and is old enough for me to get him some of these books. Hopefully he'll enjoy them as much as I did.

Here's another link giving a bit more history of him and the books he wrote.