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White , published in , with illustrations by Garth Williams. The widely read tale takes place on a farm and concerns a pig named Wilbur and his devoted friend Charlotte, the spider who manages to save his life by writing about him in her web. Persuading him that the piglet has a right to life and promising to look after it, she saves the animal and names him Wilbur. When Wilbur becomes too large, Fern is forced to sell him to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman, whose barn is filled with animals who shun the newcomer. When Wilbur discovers that he will soon be slaughtered for Christmas dinner, he is horribly distraught. It becomes apparent, however, that Charlotte is unwell.

Charlotte's Web

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Frank Baum. Edith Nesbit. Roger Lancelyn Green. Susan Coolidge. Ellen Raskin. Sir J. Michael Rosen. Home Contact us Help Free delivery worldwide. Free delivery worldwide. Bestselling Series. Harry Potter. Popular Features. Home Learning. Charlotte's Web. Description A beautiful hardback edition of Charlotte's Web by E. This lovely edition is part of the highly collectible Puffin 'cloth' Classics series - all the titles in the range have attractive 'cloth' textured covers with a stunning repeat pattern design specific to each story.

Charlotte's Web makes a perfect addition to the collection which includes some of the best-loved Puffin titles of all time. Charlotte's Web is the unforgettable story of a girl called Fern who loves a little pig called Wilbur.

It tells how Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful grey spider, saves Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat pigs, by a wonderfully clever plan - a plan so original that no one else could possibly have thought of it! This hardback edition makes a perfect gift and a must for every family bookshelf. Other books in this series.

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What Katy Did Susan Coolidge. Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling. Peter Pan Sir J. Tales of Ancient Egypt Michael Rosen. Five Children and It E. About E. White E. White was born in New York in and died in He received many awards including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in , an award given every five years to authors who have 'made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children'.

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Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, , by Harper. Charlotte's Web is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey.

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Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E.

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Charlotte's Web —the best-selling children's paperback of all time—was described by its author as "a story of friendship and salvation on a farm. But you may not know that the book's author, E. White , was himself a friend to animals. White researched every detail that went into his three books for children: Stuart Little , Charlotte's Web , and The Trumpet of the Swan

Maureen Corrigan. Read An Excerpt. In a poll of librarians, teachers, publishers and authors, the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly asked for a list of the best children's books ever published in the United States. Hands down, the No. White's Charlotte's Web. One early fall morning in , E. White walked into the barn of his farm in Maine and saw a spider web. That in itself was nothing new, but this web, with its elaborate loops and whorls that glistened with early morning dew, caught his attention. Weeks passed until one cold October evening when he noticed that the spider was spinning what turned out to be an egg sac. White never saw the spider again and, so, when he had to return later that fall to New York City to his job as a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, White took out a razor blade and cut the silken egg sac out of the web. He put the sac in an empty candy box, punched some holes in it, and absent-mindedly put the box atop his bedroom bureau in New York. Weeks later, a movement on that bureau alerted him to the fact that tiny spiderlings were making a Great Escape through the air holes. White was delighted at this affirmation of life and left the hundreds of barn spiderlings alone for the next week or so — to spin webs from his hair brush to his nail scissors to his mirror — until, finally, the cleaning lady complained. Thus was hatched the idea for Charlotte's Web, White's magical meditation on the passage of time, mortality and the great gift of finding a "true friend" in this world. However, as Michael Sims tells us in his wonderful new book called The Story of Charlotte's Web , there was also a much longer incubation period for White's classic — a period that began with his isolated childhood as the youngest of seven children; the snappy creative bustle of the New York newspaper world in the s, which gave White his career and his writing role models; and White's own lifelong struggle with anxiety.

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