Charlotte's Web (Barnes & Noble 1952 Children's)

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* BYE. B.WHITE
PICTURES BY GARTH WILLIAMS
This 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
spider who lived with
Wilbur in the barn.
With the help of
Templeton, the rat who never did
anything for anybody unless there
was something in it for him, and
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by a wonderfully clever plan of her
own, Charlotte saved the life of
Wilbur, who by this time had grown
up to be quite a pig.
How all this comes about is Mr.
White's story. It is a story of the
magic of childhood on the farm.
Children will be entranced with
Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig,
and Fern, the little girl who under­
stood their language.
The forty-seven black-and-white
drawings by Garth Williams have
wonderful detail and warm-hearted
appeal.
BARNES
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Some Reviews of
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
A Perennial Best Seller
The book has liveliness and felicity, tenderness
and unexpectedness, grace and humor and praise
of life.... The characters are varied but not simple
or opposites. They are the real thing.
—Eudora Welty, The New York Times
To write a nonsense story around this situation
might not be too difficult, but it took an E. B.
White to get beauty and wisdom into the story
along with the humor. —Horn Book
Such tangible magic is the proper element of
childhood and any grown-up who can still dip
into it—even with only so much as a toe—is
certain at last of dying young even if he lives to
be ninety.
—P. L. Travers, author of MARY POPPINS
New York Herald Tribune
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITION
ISBN 0-7607-0725-1
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PICTURES BY GARTH WILLIAMS
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Copyright © 1952 by E. B. White
Text copyright © renewed 1980 by E. B. White
Illustrations copyright © renewed 1980 by Garth Williams
This edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.,
by arrangement with HarperCollins Children's Books
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in
any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher.
1997 Barnes & Noble Books
ISBN 0-76070-725-1
Printed and bound in the United States of America
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Contents
I. BEFORE BREAKFAST I
II. WILBUR 8
III. ESCAPE 13
IV. LONELINESS 25
V. CHARLOTTE 32
VI. SUMMER DAYS 42
VII. BAD NEWS 48
VIII. A TALK AT HOME 52
ix. WILBUR'S BOAST 55
x. AN EXPLOSION 66
xi. THE MIRACLE 77
XII. A MEETING 86
XIII. GOOD PROGRESS 92
XIV. DR. DORIAN IO5
XV. THE CRICKETS 113
XVI. OFF TO THE FAIR 118
XVII. UNCLE 13O
XVIII. THE COOL OF THE EVENING 138
XIX. THE EGG SAC 144
XX. THE HOUR OF TRIUMPH 155
XXI. LAST DAY 163
XXII. A WARM WIND 172