Let’s talk about “Charlotte’s Web”

We think you're insane.

Except for the part about being kind to spiders.

I was molested by some sicko who dressed up as a spider. Hands everywhere.

Look at me, look at me, Henry Fussy: you could never give me what I wanted.

So you've never read anything but children's books, OP?

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

My friend saved my life, then she died.

R4, I do like other kinds of books.

I used to read it frequently as a child when I couldn't sleep at night. It's been decades since, and I when recently reread it I was moved by beauty in a way I hadn't expected. The sentence structure is far more complex than what you see in typical children's literature these days, yet it remains accessible and engaging.

Agnes Moorhead was? the goose?

Don't forget Paul Lynde as Templeton the Rat

Greatest American fiction? It's not even E.B. White's greatest.

Stuart Little is good.

Charlotte’s Web is literature.

It’s a great children’s book

It's fiction? Momma told me this was one of them auto biographies.

[quote] It's not even E.B. White's greatest.

The Elements of Style

R15, that one really is a timeless classic

I remember being given the book in 1959 when I was 6 years old. I retreated to my secret place deep in the back yard behind thick shrubs that no one else knew about. I was enchanted by the book and read it over and over again. That book is still a cherished piece of my childhood, tucked away all these years later.

One Fine Read

Splendid!

The Elements of Style should be required reading for anyone posting on DL.

“No one was with her when she died”.

That sentence gets me every time.

Garth Williams’s illustrations make the book always feel contemporary. I hope they never replace them.

I was a voracious reader from a very young age, and I'll never forget reading this book for the first time when I was around 6 years old in first grade.

It was how I learned about death (truly), and at the end of the book, I remember crying so hard when Charlotte died and my mother consoling me.

All I hear after a lifetime of "Charlotte's Web" is Elaine Stritch oinking out, "I'm Still Here!" as desiccated spider legs break off and crumble behind her.

There needs to be a remake of the movie.

Chrissy Metz IS Wilbur.

They broadcast the animated movie on TV when I was in kindergarten. It was the first time I’d ever heard of the story and I was not prepared for that ending. And then a couple years later on TV was the animated “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and again, I was inconsolable for a while.

I was a Fat Whore and Some Pig, too. I loved reading the detailed descriptions of Wilbur's meals!

MEH

así así

I learned the truth at age 3 in Little Golden Books when the happy, smiley, runaway pancake gets eaten by a fox wearing a bib.

Somevten years later I watched "Suddenly Last Summer" on TV and the scene where Violet relates Sebastian's reaction to the birds eating the baby turtles sealed it for me.

if there is a god he's a warped SOB.