Rank 31 of 100
Charlotte's Web
Synopsis
A runt pig named Wilbur is saved from the axe once by a girl and then, more lastingly, by a barn spider who can write in her web. White’s book is famous for being gentle, and it is, but it does not pretend that friendship cancels the fact that lives end.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1952
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Children's novel
- Genre
- Children's
- Audience
- Children
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Children's classic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 192 pages
- Reported copies
- About 50 million copies
- Kind
- Fiction