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Summary: An old friend to be revisited often
Review: What can one say about a book which remains close to one's heart years and years after the first reading. Most initial readers of this gem are unaware of the legendary early career of its author, Mr White, who along with Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and Mischa Auer, helped create the sophisticated humor genre. Wonderful companions such as Charlotte, Wilbur and even Templeton(certainly an evocation of Fred Allen)are always delightful to come home to. The ending, while not the typical Alcott suger-sweet variety, rings true on many levels. Sometimes friends must leave us, regardless of how very valuable they have been, yet it is in our very reaction and more important, actions resulting from the loss, that true, unending friendship is cemented. Hence my choice of Charlotte's Web as a true friend
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Summary: Pure drivel
Review: This book was absolutely the worst thing I ever read. My children were scared, horrified, and bored. I found the book to pontificate needlessly, to overdress otherwise humorous and warm situations with disgusting psycho-sexual overtones, and to instill, in myself (at least for a day) and my children (forever?), a feeling
of hollow sadness and bitterness at this calous author.
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Summary: Charlotte' Web: A Study of Life
Review: Charlotte's Web is a wonderufl tale of a young girl, a wonderful spider, and her precious pig, Wilbur. Charlotte saves Wilbur's life and the book is a beautiful story of friendship, love, and loyalty. It truly is a book of life, in that all of the animal characters mirror people in this world who face the challenge of living their lives each day. It also is a tender story of the love of a young girl and a very smart spider who together instill self esteem and dignity in their friend Wilbur. As an elementary school teacher, this book is in my Top Ten Read-Aloud list.
Written by Bob Townsend
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Summary: I couldn't stop reading this one.
Review: My teacher made our class write a report on your book. I actually enjoyed doing this assignment. Thanks for a great book
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Summary: The beautiful spider saved the lovingly pig's life!?
Review: Charlotte, the beautiful spider made miracles to save her bestfriend, Wilbur, a lovely, lonely pig's life. The bloody killer spiderturned out to be his life saver, it's amazing.
I like this book because it is full of life. I most enjoy the unforgettable and unreplaceable friendship the spider and the pig built up through one year. I deeply felt the special relationship between them. Also, the ending will make you cry with happiness and sadness. Read the book and find it out.
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Summary: A Great Book about Friendship
Review: I must confess that having just read "Animal Farm" shortly before reading this book, I was a little hesitant about excepting this as a pure children's story without any hidden political agenda. I kept expecting the talking animals to rise up behind the pig and take over the farm. Rest assured however there was none of that, as E.B. White does a good job of keeping the story at a purely kids level.Wilber is the runt in a litter of pigs, and Mr. Arable the farmer is going to take him out back and have him slaughtered since as he says, "He is small and weak and will never amount to anything." His young daughter Fern who is eight, hears this and requests that her father give the pig to her to raise instead. The father wishing to prove a point to her, allows this so long as she promises to do all the work to take care of it. To Mr. Arable's surprise Fern does an excellent job of raising Wilber and he turns out to be "Some Pig", proving that even though he was very small he still could amount to something. As Wilber grows bigger the Arable's can no longer support feeding him, so Mr. Arable has Fern sell Wilber to her uncle Mr. Zuckerman who has a farm down the road. There she goes and visits Wilber every day. Being young I guess gives you the ability to sit and listen to the animals more intently than adults, and by doing so Fern is able to hear that the animals can actually talk and she understands them. (Being the father of two girls who are 7 and 5, I'd have to disagree somewhat with this logic as my girls never sit still, and certainly have a hard time listening at times, but for the sake of the story we'll just give them the benefit of the doubt.) Anywise Wilber meets all the other animals in the barn who are very nice, but none of them are really his close friend. He becomes lonely and wishes for a friend. A gray spider named Charlotte answers his prayers and after introducing herself, she becomes Wilber's best friend. When the other animals tell Wilber that Mr. Zuckerman is just fatting him up to eat him for Christmas, this makes him greatly disturbed. Charlotte being a great friend promises to do all she can to make Wilber so important to Mr. Zuckerman that he would change his mind. She sets a plan in action to weave messages into her web proclaiming how great the pig is, and by doing so she hopes to trick the adults into believing it as well. With the help of Templeton the rat she obtains some newspaper clippings and begins her work. Each new message in the web is looked upon as miracle, but rather than looking for any religious connection, the folks in the town just believe they have a very famous pig on their hands and accept it at face value. The suspense builds as Zuckerman takes Wilber to the Fair. If he can just win an award there, Charlotte knows his life will be saved. Charlotte and Templeton have to stow away in Wilber's crate just to accompany him to the Fair, and then when they get there the pig in the stall next to Wilber is twice as big and looks to be a shoe in for first prize. This book was obviously written at a much simpler time in history. At the Fair grounds the adults send the kids off on their own. Besides Fern who is 8, she has a little brother Avery who is only 5. After giving them all kinds of warnings such as not to eat too much, and to stay out of the sun, to not get dirty, and to be careful on the rides, the mother stops and says to the husband, "Do you think they'll be all right?" and he responds, "Well they have to grow up sometime." (None of the warnings were about staying away from strangers.) Of course when the kids returned they hadn't stayed out of the sun and were hot, and completely dirty, but they had fun. Fern meets a boy at the Fair, and starts to grow up a bit as playing with him starts to seem like more fun than talking to bunch of animals. It is a great book about overcoming obstacles even though you are very small, growing up, and most of all friendship. My girls loved the book as well, and especially seemed to like the illustrations by Garth Williams.
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Summary: Shelby's AWESOME Review!!!
Review: I missed reading this story in my youth, though I admit I read many of my sister's books growing up. My curiousity was peaked when I arrived home from work one day and found my 5 year old daughter pretending to be a pig. My wife had started reading this book aloud to her. We had to read three more chapters before bedtime. This was the longest she has sat still so far in her life. I actually couldn't resist staying up to read the rest myself. It is a very charming story for all ages. My little girl has been obsessed with fairies and dogs for some time, now she has added pigs to her interests. Thanks to this book, we are seeking a farm or petting zoo to visit soon.
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Summary: Terrific Story
Review: This is one of the best books of all time. It is so touching and a classic story of friendship. I read it to my youngest girl when she was three. Now she is twelve and has read it about fifteen times. She loves it as much as I do. Highly recommended for everyone.
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Summary: Charlotte's Web
Review: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White is an awesome book to read no matter what age you are. This Newberry Honor Book tells us about two extraordinary friendships. These friendships are Wilbur and Fern's and Wilbur and Charlotte's. The first friendship White writes for us is of Fern and Wilbur's love for each other. Fern saved Wilbur from being killed because he was a runt and because of that, the two became best friends and inseparable. As life goes on and Fern grows older, Wilbur finds him a new best friend in the barn of which he lives. Her name is Charlotte and she, like Fern, also saved Wilbur's life.
This was one of my favorite books in elementary school and it is still one of my favorites to this day. Children are able to read this book and feel connections through this book with the relationships of the characters. Not only the best friends of Fern, Wilbur, and Charlotte, but also the other relationships such as Templeton helping Charlotte save Wilbur's life. Without Templeton, Charlotte wouldn't have had the lettering to weave into her web. This teaches children that you may not always want to do something, but if it's for the better of someone else, you probably should. Templeton was greedy with his food and life but he put aside (grumpily) his greed for a few moments to find these words for Charlotte and Wilbur.
When I become a teacher, I thought about reading this book to my classes so they can listen to such a wonderful book. I started thinking about some lessons to tie in with reading the book aloud and I thought of a social studies lesson with the types of occupations when the book takes place. Farming was a big occupation in these days and I want my students to know that all the jobs available now were not available during the setting of the book. I also thought of reviewing different farm animals and letting students pick a farm animal to do a mini project on. I think students would have so much fun researching this stuff on the computer, and while they do not know it, they will be learning how to use the internet to search their topics. When we are finished reading the book, I will have my students write a story about their favorite farm animal in the book or write a story about how they would save their best friends life.
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Summary: Charlott's Web
Review: E.B. White introduced fantasy to many young readers. Wilbur, the main character, was a pig that was not wanted because he was a runt. Fern took care of Wilbur then sold him to her Unlce Zuckerman who owns a farm. Wilber met many animals, but finds himself lonely. Wilbur sat in his barn stall all alone. He asked the animals if they would like to be his friend. Only one answered and it was Charlotte the spider. Wilbur must struggle with the idea that he might be dinner.
Charlotte had an idea that would save Wilbur's life. She decided to weave words into her web such as, "Some Pig" and "Radiant". For the first time in Wilbur's life he feels wanted. Many people came to Zuckerman's farm to see this "miracle".
Wilbur was characterized as a sweet, loving, pig that wanted friends. This appealed to many young readers because it would allow them to appreciate the friends they have. This terrific book showed children the importance of friendship and what it means to be a friend.
This Newbery Honor book contained loneliness, happiness, and some humor that readers would enjoy.
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