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Stuart Little

E.B. White

3.57 AVERAGE

kwolf21's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous lighthearted

sleepy_chicken's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

amykclaflin's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

laryssasouza's review against another edition

2.0

O filme é melhor.

mcrez719's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous slow-paced

i had fun reading this aloud to the toddler i nanny for, but the book was so bizarre. super rambley, no plot, abrupt ending, found start to be unlikeable. i reread charlottes web a few months ago and it held up beautifully. however, i didn’t like this one, aside from experiencing the world from a mouse’s perspective and that everything he used was tiny. i know it’s ridiculous to hold older books to similar standards to current norms for what makes books inoffensive, but i found all the references to Native folks to be distasteful and out of absolutely nowhere.

bookishwendy's review against another edition

2.0

What a bizarre book. Though I read Charlotte's Web and Trumpet of the Swan as a child, honestly I would have been perfectly fine if I'd never gotten around to this one. Don't get me wrong, E.B. White can set a scene and turn a phrase (the Central Park boat race chapter!), but in this particular volume he can't seem to tell a cohesive story. From the opening scene of happy human parents returning home with a newborn mouse, through the bit with the bespectacled and betweeded substitute teacher Stuart claiming to be Chairman of the World and ordering a boy to steal a girl's keepsake and then putting him on trial, to the (deliberately?) jerkface "love letter" he sends to his unsuspecting date, to the tragi-bad date itself ruined mostly by Stuart's piqued masculine pride...this is quite the ride. I can't say I enjoyed the read, but I was entertained.