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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
1/2* -Stuart doesn't seem nice. I expected a cute, heartwarming story. I guess it was somewhat cute.
-Doesn't seem right - among other things -how he was concerned about the bird, yet kept doing other things.
-The end... that's all!?!?
I enjoyed the writing, but not so much the story's details or incompleteness.
-Doesn't seem right - among other things -how he was concerned about the bird, yet kept doing other things.
-The end... that's all!?!?
I enjoyed the writing, but not so much the story's details or incompleteness.
Stuart Little has the best magic system: cooky New Yorkers showing zero surprise that a mutant human baby with a mouselike physique asks them for directions. They take Stuart at face value and answer his questions. It's the kind of respect that every child dreams of.
End note for Harriet Ames and only Harriet Ames.
You can do better than Stuart. I thought you behaved yourself very well on that failed date. While Stuart was a canoeing pile of red flags.
End note for Harriet Ames and only Harriet Ames.
You can do better than Stuart. I thought you behaved yourself very well on that failed date. While Stuart was a canoeing pile of red flags.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm kind of speechless, to be honest.
What a weird, weird book...
Let's start with the most bizzare thing: Mrs Little gives birth to a human child that is two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse. That's how the book starts. And nobody questions that! Nobody thinks it's strange or that there's something wrong, they just go "okay, guess we have a mouse-son now". This is the very beginning of the book, mind you!
There are other oddities too: for example, all the miniature cars and boats are fully functional. One even has an "invisibility switch" (and okay, I can suspend my disbelief for this one, but are you really telling me that a dentist who makes model cars and boats in his spare time has figured out invisibility?)
Stuart himself is a very unlikeable character. He's arrogant, mean and selfish. His attitude towards the female characters is very of its time (he goes on an entire quest searching for a bird he fell in love with but feels free to ask a random girl he met out on a date). And he never felt like a child (I assume that's what he was supposed to be), more like a 1940s businessman.
The story itself was messy as hell. There was almost no plot or structure for the most part of the book, but then at the last minute White decides that there is actually a plot and tacks on a cheesy moral about how "life is about the journey, not the destination"
What a weird read! The movie really smoothed things out, in my opinion.
What a weird, weird book...
Let's start with the most bizzare thing: Mrs Little gives birth to a human child that is two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse. That's how the book starts. And nobody questions that! Nobody thinks it's strange or that there's something wrong, they just go "okay, guess we have a mouse-son now". This is the very beginning of the book, mind you!
There are other oddities too: for example, all the miniature cars and boats are fully functional. One even has an "invisibility switch" (and okay, I can suspend my disbelief for this one, but are you really telling me that a dentist who makes model cars and boats in his spare time has figured out invisibility?)
Stuart himself is a very unlikeable character. He's arrogant, mean and selfish. His attitude towards the female characters is very of its time (he goes on an entire quest searching for a bird he fell in love with but feels free to ask a random girl he met out on a date). And he never felt like a child (I assume that's what he was supposed to be), more like a 1940s businessman.
The story itself was messy as hell. There was almost no plot or structure for the most part of the book, but then at the last minute White decides that there is actually a plot and tacks on a cheesy moral about how "life is about the journey, not the destination"
What a weird read! The movie really smoothed things out, in my opinion.
Read this to my boys at bedtime. They loved it - but couldn't come to terms with the open ending. There was so much more story to tell!
I had a cassette tape of this as a child and fell asleep listening to it more times than I could count.
Can't believe that Audible has the same version I listened to as a kid (recorded in 1991). What a treat!
I always thought we only had part of the story, but no, it really is just that short - I guess it goes with the theme, haha. It's so amazingly imaginative, and youthful, and wondrous, and often beautiful... but it does feel almost unfinished. There's no sequel though, I checked. I guess E.B. White - who also wrote Charlotte's Web, and narrated a recording of it himself, which audible has, and to which I also grew up listening - well, I guess the author wanted Stuart's future adventures to be open-ended, to linger in reader's minds... it definitely works. This story has such a disproportionate sticking-power, compared to its length. And Julie Harris is such a fantastic narrator. Her acting of the gauzed Mr. Clydesdale will be with me to the day I die, haha. I definitely want a printed copy as well now.
I grew up with the movie too, which feels almost more like a retelling of Annie than it does an accurate representation of this book. George Shrinks gets closer to Stuart Little, honestly... we loved that show growing up. To this day, I feel like the borrowers and their ilk (doll-sized people, pixies, etc.) are such a slam dunk for children's stories. I've actually repurposed some of this theme for my own kids' improvised bedtime stories, and they're instantly drawn in by the idea of a mouse-sized person. It's easy to imagine all the different adventures such an individual might have in a world which is giant to them. It makes my job easy. So I'd recommend not just this book, but also its entire theme... being small in a big world. It's perfect for children, and even resonates for adults.
I love this book. I'd recommend it to anyone with children or a child-like nature, or just if you want to read a book instead of watching a movie. It'll take about as long: maybe an hour or two to read from beginning to end :)
5/5 stars. It's amazing, and I think it gets even better the more you revisit it.
Can't believe that Audible has the same version I listened to as a kid (recorded in 1991). What a treat!
I always thought we only had part of the story, but no, it really is just that short - I guess it goes with the theme, haha. It's so amazingly imaginative, and youthful, and wondrous, and often beautiful... but it does feel almost unfinished. There's no sequel though, I checked. I guess E.B. White - who also wrote Charlotte's Web, and narrated a recording of it himself, which audible has, and to which I also grew up listening - well, I guess the author wanted Stuart's future adventures to be open-ended, to linger in reader's minds... it definitely works. This story has such a disproportionate sticking-power, compared to its length. And Julie Harris is such a fantastic narrator. Her acting of the gauzed Mr. Clydesdale will be with me to the day I die, haha. I definitely want a printed copy as well now.
I grew up with the movie too, which feels almost more like a retelling of Annie than it does an accurate representation of this book. George Shrinks gets closer to Stuart Little, honestly... we loved that show growing up. To this day, I feel like the borrowers and their ilk (doll-sized people, pixies, etc.) are such a slam dunk for children's stories. I've actually repurposed some of this theme for my own kids' improvised bedtime stories, and they're instantly drawn in by the idea of a mouse-sized person. It's easy to imagine all the different adventures such an individual might have in a world which is giant to them. It makes my job easy. So I'd recommend not just this book, but also its entire theme... being small in a big world. It's perfect for children, and even resonates for adults.
I love this book. I'd recommend it to anyone with children or a child-like nature, or just if you want to read a book instead of watching a movie. It'll take about as long: maybe an hour or two to read from beginning to end :)
5/5 stars. It's amazing, and I think it gets even better the more you revisit it.
This book was so boring I ended up skimming it. Stuart Little was one of my favorite movies as a kid but I somehow never got around to reading the book. I usually like reading children’s books but this one was very bad. It hasn’t aged well at all. The characters were kind of bland and boring and there were lots of weird parts that didn’t make any sense. Not to mention it ended very abruptly. Charlotte’s Web was way better than this. Overall I would not recommend this book. Watch the Stuart Little movie instead! It’s awesome!
This is one of those books that I don't remember reading as a child, but someone must have read it to me, for I was horrified the first time I saw a scene from the movie version--the animated mouse was nothing like the Stuart Little I had in my mind. I couldn't remember anything about how the book ended, though, so I decided to read it now as an adult, only to find out that the reason I don't remember an end is because there really isn't one (which, evidently, is because E.B. White thought he was going to die and decided to rush the book to the publisher. He, of course, lived another 40 years).
The abrupt ending left me a little unsatisfied, simply because there seemed to be such a build up for no reason. But what I did love about this book was White's ability to make a scene as mundane as a mouse trying to brush his teeth seem so fascinating. I'll give the book another try one day, but for now, just three stars.
The abrupt ending left me a little unsatisfied, simply because there seemed to be such a build up for no reason. But what I did love about this book was White's ability to make a scene as mundane as a mouse trying to brush his teeth seem so fascinating. I'll give the book another try one day, but for now, just three stars.