Charlotte's Web Paperback - 2001

Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E. B. White is a piece of classic children’s literature. Fern Arable, a young girl growing up on a farm, pleads with her father to not butcher the runt of a recently birthed litter of pigs. After being spared, Wilbur the pig spends some time as Fern’s pet before being sold to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman, at which point Wilbur’s adventure truly begins. After being rejected by the other animals at Homer’s farm, Wilbur strikes up an unlikely friendship with Charlotte, a spider whose silky web resides near the pig. When Wilbur learns that he is to be butchered, his arachnid companion hatches a daring plan to save his life. The famous novel has been adapted into a movie, video game, stage production, and is soon to be made into a television series. A feat of storytelling, Charlotte’s Web won the Laura Ingall’s Wilder Medal and was a Newbery Honor book in 1953.


Charlotte's Web is one of the best-selling paperbacks of all time. E.B. White rarely signed books, so a signed first edition can run anywhere from a few thousand dollars, to over $25,000.

Details

• Title Charlotte's Web
• Author E. B. White; Garth Williams (Illustrator); Rosemary Wells (Illustrator)
• Binding Paperback
• Edition [ Edition: first
• Pages 184
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher HarperCollins, New York, New York
• Date 2001-10-02
• Illustrated Yes
• Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9780064410939 / 0064410935
• Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
• Dimensions 8 x 5.42 x 0.66 in (20.32 x 13.77 x 1.68 cm)
• Ages 08 to 12 years
• Grade levels 3 - 7
• Reading level 680
• Themes
  • Catalog Heading: Classics
  • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
  • Demographic Orientation: Rural
  • Theometrics: Secular
  • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Topical: Friendship
• Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Domestic animals
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 52009760
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC