Charlottes Web

7 Things You Didn't Know About E.B. White

| Posted 04.24.2012

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By Margaret Bristol for Bookish For 60 years, "Charlotte's Web" has been a beloved children's classic taught in classrooms and read before bedtime....

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"Charlotte's Web" and the Power of Words

Leah Singer | Posted 05.27.2012

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Leah Singer

As E.B. White so beautifully says, Charlotte is indeed a true friend and a good writer. The beauty lies with that little spider who changed (and saved) lives through the power of her writing. I only hope I can live up to Charlotte and do the same with my words.

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Andrew Burmon

PHOTOS: Revisiting The Fair From 'Charlotte's Web'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 05.15.2012

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In the sixty years since E.B. White wrote Charlotte's Web, the novel that immortalized its humble, dusty charms, Maine's Blue Hill Fair has undergone ...

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Writers Struggle To Out-Imagine 9/11

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.18.2011

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NEW YORK -- Ten years later, and our imaginations are still catching up to Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't think art can `compete' with something like 9/11,...

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Along Came a Spider: Michael Sims' The Story of Charlotte's Web

Monica Edinger | Posted 08.22.2011

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Monica Edinger

Michael Sims' The Story of Charlotte's Web is not only for E. B. White fans and lovers of Charlotte's Web, but for anyone who enjoys a thoughtfully researched and written work of literary nonfiction.

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Reading Charlotte's Web as a Activist

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tony Newman

Thirty five years after originally reading the book, I have realized that E.B. White was not only a great writer, but a visionary and activist as well.

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Family Greed Separates Charlotte from Wilbur (VIDEO)

Rocco Staino | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rocco Staino

Scholars, librarians and the lovers of children's books were sad and disheartened to learn of the sale of Garth Williams' artwork for Charlotte's Web.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Talking Animals In Literature: Why Do We Love Them So Much?

The Guardian | Andrew O'Hagan | Posted 05.25.2011

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From Achilles' horse to Lassie, animals provide moral authority and sympathy in fiction, often giving voice to the silenced and oppressed. Andrew O'Ha...

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Children's Books That Can Still Make You Cry

The Guardian | Imogen Russell Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many books make me cry when I encounter them for the first time, although fewer these days than during my mascara-smeared teens. But it's rare that a ...

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