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Charlotte's web

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  • ISBN: 9780064400558 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0064400557 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 184 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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  • Publisher: New York : HarperTrophy, [2004?]

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General Note:
Reprint. Originally published 1952.
Copyright renewed 1980.
Summary, etc.: Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
Subject: Swine Juvenile fiction
Spiders Juvenile fiction

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Charlotte's Web : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Charlotte's Web : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
by White, E. B.; Williams, Garth (Illustrator); DiCamillo, Kate
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Author Notes

Charlotte's Web : A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Born in Mount Vernon, New York, E. B. White was educated at Cornell University and served as a private in World War I. After several years as a journalist, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, then in its infancy. For 11 years he wrote most of the "Talk of the Town" columns, and it was White and James Thurber who can be credited with setting the style and attitude of the magazine. In 1938 he retired to a saltwater farm in Maine, where he wrote essays regularly for Harper's Magazine under the title "One Man's Meat." Like Thoreau, White preferred the woods; he also resembled Thoreau in his impatience and indignation. White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker. (Bowker Author Biography)


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