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May 14, 2002 | 214 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Jul 04, 2000 | 214 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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May 14, 2002 | ISBN 9780807208526 | Middle Grade (8-12)
214 Minutes
Jul 04, 2000 | ISBN 9780553754490 | Middle Grade (8-12)
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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte’s Web has become one of America’s best-loved children’s books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charlotte who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this classic, a 1953 Newbery Honor book, comes to life in a delightful unabridged recording, read lovingly by the author himself.
This Newbery Honor Book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children’s literature that is “just about perfect.” Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte’s Web, high up in Zuckerman’s barn. Charlotte’s spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur’s life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White’s beloved book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. “What the book is about is friendship on earth, affection and protection, adventure and miracle, life and death, trust and treachery, pleasure and pain, and the passing of time. As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in the way it is done.”—Eudora Welty, The New York Times Book Review “High caprice on a farm, handled with wit and wisdom, that serves to put an imperfect world back into joint.”—The New Yorker “A fantasy that has the beauty and delicacy of the web itself.”—The Saturday Review
E. B. White, the author of such beloved classics as Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan, was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff… More about E. B. White
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