Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White, E. B. White (Read by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807208526
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/14/2002
Edition description:	Unabridged, 3 CDs, 3 hrs. 40 min.
Pages:	3
Product dimensions:	5.05(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

E.B. White, also the author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, received the Newbery Honor in 1953 for Charlotte's Web. In 1970, he was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder medal for his lasting contribution to children's literature.

Date of Birth:

July 11, 1899

Date of Death:

October 1, 1985

Place of Birth:

Mount Vernon, New York

Place of Death:

North Brooklin, Maine

Education:

B.A., Cornell University, 1921

Website:

http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/author/author/white/

Table of Contents

Before Breakfast		1	(7)
Wilbur		8	(5)
Escape		13	(12)
Loneliness		25	(7)
Charlotte		32	(10)
Summer Days		42	(6)
Bad News		48	(4)
A Talk at Home		52	(3)
Wilbur's Boast		55	(11)
An Explosion		66	(11)
The Miracle		77	(9)
A Meeting		86	(6)
Good Progress		92	(13)
Dr. Dorian		105	(8)
The Crickets		113	(5)
Off to the Fair		118	(12)
Uncle		130	(8)
The Cool of the Evening		138	(6)
The Egg Sac		144	(11)
The Hour of Triumph		155	(8)
Last Day		163	(9)
A Warm Wind		172

Editorial Reviews

After 60 years, the story of Fern, her pig, Wilber, the wise spider, Charlotte, and all their barn friends still resonates clearly with the message of wonderment and friendship. It could be argued that White's story is even more important today than it was upon first publication. This novel is more than a story of a little pig that desperately wants a friend, and then finds one in a spider, who shares her love by weaving messages in her web. The novel is a celebration of the outdoor world. White masterfully expresses his joy of the outdoors in his descriptions of bird songs, nature's food, the sounds and smells of a barn, and the thrill of a rope swing. This 60th Anniversary Edition keeps the look of the original, complete with Garth Williams' detailed illustrations. It also includes a new forward by Newberry-winning author, Kate DiCamillo, in which DiCamillo confesses that she did not read the novel until she was an adult for fear that things would not turn out well. The miracle of the book, she writes, is that "we bear this unbearable thing. And in the end, we even rejoice." Reviewer: Jody Little

Children's Literature - Jody Little