A review by ice_clown
Stuart Little by E.B. White

1.0

OH BOY. I would like someone to explain to me a single reason why this book is considered a great children's book. The first couple of chapters were charming and captured my daughter's interest, but once Stuart finally left on his "adventure" [dramatic scoffing] the book fell off a cliff. The big adventure? More like Stuart bumbling around the city, talking about history to middle schoolers, writing letters to characters we haven't met, moping about said characters, and generally being extremely boring. So boring. There were pages upon pages of nautical vocabulary that went way over my head. We get it, Elwyn, you know a lot about boats. This book was so disorganized and nonsensical. Also, Stuart was not a particularly likeable character, which is the cherry on top of the I-don't-like-this-book sundae.