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Charlotte's Web
AuthorE. B. White
IllustratorGarth Williams
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Children's literature
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date1952
Media typePrint
Pages192 pp
ISBNISBN 0-06-028298-3


Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a barn spider named Charlotte and her friendship with a pig named Wilbur. The book was illustrated by Garth Williams.

Publishers Weekly listed the book as the best-selling children's paperback of all time as of 2000.[1]

Plot

This book begins when John Arable's sow gives birth to a litter of piglets, and Mr. Arable discovers one of them is a and decides to kill it. However, his daughter Fern begs him to let it live. Therefore her father gives it to Fern as a pet, and she names the runt Wilbur.

Wilbur is hyperactive and always exploring new things. He lives with Fern for a few weeks and then is sold to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman. Although Fern visits him at the Zuckermans' farm as often as she can, he gets lonelier day after day. Eventually, a warm and soothing voice tells him that she is going to be his friend. The next day, he wakes up and meets his new friend: Charlotte, the gray spider. Wilbur soon becomes a member of the community of animals who live in the cellar of Zuckerman's barn.

When the old sheep in the barn cellar tells Wilbur that he is going to be killed and eaten at Christmas, he turns to Charlotte for help. Charlotte has the idea of writing words in her web extolling Wilbur's excellence (such as "SOME PIG"), reasoning that if she can make Wilbur sufficiently famous, he will not be killed. Thanks to Charlotte's efforts, Wilbur not only lives, but goes to the county fair--with Charlotte--and wins a prize.

Due to the short lifespan of spiders, Charlotte dies at the fair. Wilbur repays Charlotte by bringing home with him the sac of eggs (her "magnum opus") she had laid at the fair before dying. When Charlotte's eggs hatch at Zuckerman's farm and most of Charlotte's daughters leave to make their own lives elsewhere, three remain there as friends to Wilbur.

Sales and recognition

Aside from its paperback sales, Charlotte's Web is 78th on the all-time bestselling hardback book list. According to publicity for the 2006 film adaptation (see below), the book has sold more than 45 million copies and been translated into 23 languages. It was a Newbery Honors book for 1953, losing to Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark for the medal.

In 1970, White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children's literature, for Charlotte's Web, along with his first children's book, Stuart Little, published in 1945.

Film adaptations

1973 version

Main article: Charlotte's Web (1973 film)


The book was adapted into an animated feature by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. The film, distributed to theatres by Paramount Pictures on February 22, 1973, is one of only two Hanna-Barbera features not based upon one of their television cartoons—Heidi's Song (1982) being the other—and was a moderate critical and commercial success. The animated version was a musical film with lyrics and music by the Sherman Brothers, who had previously been responsible for the music in the family film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

2003 version

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This is the sequel of the 1973 movie, released directly to video by Paramount Pictures.

2006 version

Main article: Charlotte's Web (2006 film)


Paramount Pictures, with Walden Media, Kerner Entertainment Company, and Nickelodeon Movies, produced a live-action/animated film starring Dakota Fanning as Fern. It was released on December 15, 2006. Special effects were by Fuel International, Digital Pictures Iloura, Proof (studio), Rhythm and Hues Studios, Rising Sun Pictures, and Tippett Studio [1].

Trivia

  • Charlotte gives her full name as "Charlotte A. Cavatica", revealing her as a barn spider, an orb-weaver with the scientific name Araneus cavaticus.

References

1. ^ [2]

See also

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Charlotte's Web is a children's book, which was first published in 1952. It may also refer to the following:
  • Charlotte's Web (1973 film) – an animated film adaption of the book, released in 1973

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Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist.
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Garth Williams, April 16, 1912 - May 8, 1996, was a prominent American illustrator known for his work on children's books.

Life

Garth Williams grew up on farms in New Jersey and Canada.
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Children's literature is a literary genre whose primary audience is children, although many books within the genre are also enjoyed by adults.

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There are some debate as to what constitutes children's literature.
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Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist.
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A. cavaticus

Binomial name
Araneus cavaticus
Keyserling, 1882

Synonyms

Epeira cavatica
Epeira cinerea
Aranea cavatica

The barn spider (
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Sus
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Sus barbatus
Sus bucculentus†
Sus cebifrons
Sus celebensis
Sus domestica
Sus falconeri†
Sus heureni

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Garth Williams, April 16, 1912 - May 8, 1996, was a prominent American illustrator known for his work on children's books.

Life

Garth Williams grew up on farms in New Jersey and Canada.
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Secret of the Andes
Author Ann Nolan Clark
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Children's novel
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date 1952
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA
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Ann Nolan Clark, born Anna Marie Nolan (December 5, 1896 – December 6 1995) was an American writer who won the 1953 Newbery Medal.

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Awarded for Best American book for children
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First awarded 1922
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Stuart Little

Author E. B. White
Illustrator Garth Williams
Cover artist Garth Williams
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fiction, Children's Literature
Publisher HarperTrophy
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Charlotte's Web, a children's book by E. B. White, was adapted into an animated musical film by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. The song score is by the Sherman Brothers.
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