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danilanglie 's review for:
Stuart Little
by E.B. White
This is a perfectly charming little book, but I definitely think my favorite of the author's is Charlotte's Web. I may have to go and revisit that one also, sometime soon.
I sort of admire the lack of narrative cohesion in this text; we start off with Stuart being with his family, and then he goes off on a road trip adventure with the express purpose of finding his friend Margalo the bird, and when the book ends, he has not found her, nor does he make any move towards returning home. Things end very much in the middle, after a series of chapters that were really just each their own little adventure or strange fun encounter on their own.
And yet that lack of cohesion is also what makes my reaction to this at the end of the day very much just a... *shrug* okay, that was cute. It's a book for kids written in the 1940's! I enjoyed it for the little glimpse of history that it is.
I sort of admire the lack of narrative cohesion in this text; we start off with Stuart being with his family, and then he goes off on a road trip adventure with the express purpose of finding his friend Margalo the bird, and when the book ends, he has not found her, nor does he make any move towards returning home. Things end very much in the middle, after a series of chapters that were really just each their own little adventure or strange fun encounter on their own.
And yet that lack of cohesion is also what makes my reaction to this at the end of the day very much just a... *shrug* okay, that was cute. It's a book for kids written in the 1940's! I enjoyed it for the little glimpse of history that it is.