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Book Reviews of Charlotte's Web
Book Review: Charlotte's web
Summary: 5 Stars
Probably the BEST children's book ever written. Everyone should read this book as a child AND again as an adult. It doesn't get any better than this!!Book Review: Children's Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't care what weird opinions you have on talking animals (frankly, I can't stand a lot of them, either). But Charlotte's Web is a fable about friendship told properly fable-ish through the voices of animals and a little girl who are thrown together in an effort to keep a pig from certain doom. Yes, it's cutesy, but it is for children and they love it. The animals all have their separate personalites and I have personally seen adult books that can't have the characterization of these. It's a great, timeless story.Book Review: Classic Children's Book -- Quick Delivery
Summary: 5 Stars
The book is, of course, a children's classic. Great for a child who is moving away from "picture books" to "chapter books." I was most happy about the quick free delivery - ordered one week before Christmas, it arrived two days later!Book Review: Fantastic
Summary: 4 Stars
I read this fantastic book called Charlottes Web by E.B White. The plot about the book is there is a pig named Wilbur and he was sent to a family called the Zuckermans. Wilbur was in Uncle Homer's barn. The main characters are Wilbur, Fern and Charlotte. Who should read this book is people who like sad endings will enjoy this book. My rating for this book was a 10. The reason why I rated it a ten was because it is an amazing book and also because I like sad endings some times. This is the most fantastic, amazing, awesome, exciting book that I have ever read.Book Review: Five Stars for Style
Summary: 5 Stars
A farm girl named Fern adopts Wilbur the pig and nurses him, but her father doesn't want to keep a runt, so he farms the pig out to his brother-in-law. Nonetheless Fern goes every day to visit Wilbur, where she sits on a stool and listens in on all the barnyard conversations. Charlotte, the wisest of the barnyard animals, tells Wilbur that his days are numbered, causing him no small distress. The spider finds a way to save him from turning into bacon by spinning words into her web. Wilbur's fame spreads until the day of the county fair, where he wins a prize. By that time Fern, however, would rather be off riding the Ferris wheel with Henry Fussy. In the end, well, as we all know, pigs live longer than spiders, but Charlotte has left her mark not only on Wilbur but on all who read this touching little story.
This is one of the strangest stories I have ever read. It's a bit like Puff the Magic Dragon, when little Jackie Paper comes around no more, but Wilbur was never attached to Fern in the first place. His one true friend was Charlotte. Of course the entire cast of barnyard characters, the rat, the geese, the sheep, the hired hand, all add to the color of the story, but it is the wisdom of the spider that spins the plot of this 1950s classic. E.B. White's style is simple and direct. The illustrations by Garth Williams bring out the earthiness of the story. I'll give it five stars for style.