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Wilbur und Charlotte

E.B. White

4.08 AVERAGE

emotional medium-paced
lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Yes

Sweet but sad
emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

reading this as an adult probably doesn’t have the same impact had i read it as a child. still found it beautiful though.
adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

3.75 ★

Still so good.

I just finished reading this to my 4yo tonight. I don't think I've read it since I was Fern's age. What a classic. It's quite possible that everything I know about farms and spiders and buttermilk comes from reading this book.

"What the book is about is friendship on earth, affection and protection, adventure and miracle, life and death, trust and treachery, pleasure and pain, and the passing of time. As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in the way it is done." —Eudora Welty

"High caprice on a farm, handled with wit and wisdom, that serves to put an imperfect world back into joint." —The New Yorker


Salutations and synonyms. I hope someday to have been a Charlotte to a dear friend, "she was brilliant, beautiful, and loyal to the end."

I know people love this book, so reading it for the first time (I think) as an adult, I have many different feelings. I recommend listening to it, especially with a full cast and narrated by Meryl Streep. Anyway, I spent two hours with my class dissecting this book so there is too much to write here.