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maurakeaney 's review for:
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Re-read Charlotte's Web for the first time in approximately 40 years, this time with my 6 year old son. I read it with some trepidation, as beginning to read Little House in the Big Woods with him was so disappointing, both due to the less than stellar writing and most urgently to the disgusting racism...we didn't finish it and he hasn't asked for it. I was a bit worried that re-reading Charlotte's Web would be similar...but I was pleasantly surprised to find it as rich and beautiful as I did 40 years ago, enjoying through my child's eyes the humor in so many scenes and unique perspective of this lovely pig and his friendship with a spider.
I did warn my son ahead of time that the book had a very sad ending, and I think he feared for most of the book that it would be Wilbur, so the death itself was less upsetting to him than I had worried it might be. He did have one of only a handful of nightmares in his life the night after we finished that chapter, so it definitely affected him deeply. But I think the experience of reading it together was wonderful for both of us, and it's a great relief that a childhood favorite is a favorite for my own child, too.
I did warn my son ahead of time that the book had a very sad ending, and I think he feared for most of the book that it would be Wilbur, so the death itself was less upsetting to him than I had worried it might be. He did have one of only a handful of nightmares in his life the night after we finished that chapter, so it definitely affected him deeply. But I think the experience of reading it together was wonderful for both of us, and it's a great relief that a childhood favorite is a favorite for my own child, too.