Rereading Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

About this episode

The episode revisits E.B. White’s classic children's novel Charlotte's Web and discusses its themes and related works.

For this episode, we reread E.B. White’s 1952 classic Charlotte’s Web. Also by White: Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, The Elements of Style, Is Sex Necessary?, Essays of E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White, "Death of a Pig" Blog post on Henry Fussy New Yorker article on Garth Williams The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Michael Sims Eudora Welty’s New York Times review Recommended: Anne of Green Gables, Caddie Woodlawn (Mary Grace); Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, Mist...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mary Grace McGeehan, Deborah Kalb

Topics covered

• children's literature
• classic novels
• E.B. White
• Charlotte's Web
• book recommendations

Keywords

• Charlotte's Web
• E.B. White
• children's literature
• book discussion
• classic novels

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New Yorker

Books & works: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, The Elements of Style, Is Sex Necessary?, Essays of E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White, Death of a Pig, The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Eudora Welty’s New York Times review

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