Summary
Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."* Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn.... Full description
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Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."* Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spider web tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. Includes an appreciation written and read by Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, the cover artist of this edition and author/illustrator of Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White. Narrated by Meryl Streep featuring: January LaVoy as CHARLOTTE, Kirby Heyborne as WILBUR, MacLeod Andrews as TEMPLETON, with additional performances by: Mark Bramhall as LURVY, Scott Brick as THE MINISTER, Cassandra Campbell as EDITH ZUCKERMAN, Danny Campbell as HOMER ZUCKERMAN, Mark Deakins as MR. ARABLE, Kimberly Farr as MRS. ARABLE, Tavia Gilbert as THE GOOSE, Dion Graham as THE GANDER, Almarie Guerra as NELLIE, Johnny Heller as THE FAIR ANNOUNCER, Lincoln Hoppe as AVERY, Raymond Lee as THE BABY SPIDER, Robin Miles as THE OLD SHEEP, Adenrele Ojo as ARANEA, Ray Porter as UNCLE THE PIG, Emily Rankin as FERN, John Rubinstein as DR. DORIAN, Bahni Turpin as THE LAMB, Julia Whelan as JOY. |
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Item Description: |
Unabridged. |
Physical Description: |
1 online resource (4 audio files) : digital |
Playing Time: |
04::0:2: |
Format: |
Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 113633 KB). |
ISBN: |
9781984843289 |
Author Notes: |
White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker. (Bowker Author Biography) |