Charlotte's Web Book and Charm (Charming Classics) | 
| Author: E. B. White
Creator: Garth Williams
Publisher: HarperFestival
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 225888
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0060845945
EAN: 9780060845940
ASIN: 0060845945
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Product Description
Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web remains one of the most cherished children's stories of all time. Now this classic is available with an adorable gold–tone necklace and spider web charm. A new generation of readers will delight in this heartwarming tale of friendship, hardship, and one courageous little farm girl
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Never Give Up May 11, 2009
Have you ever saved an animal's life? Charlotte's Web by E.B. White was a fun, fictional story about a pig named Wilbur who was saved lots of times from the threat of death. Because Wilbur was the runt, his owner was going to kill him. Fern the farmer's daughter, cleverly stopped her dad and took care of Wilbur. Later, Wilbur moved to her Uncle's house where he met a spider named Charlotte. Charlotte also saved him when the Uncle was going to kill him to eat.
My favorite part happened when Fern's family went to the fair, because the kids explored by themselves and all the people adored Wilbur. All Wilbur's animal friends worked together to help him become the prize pig at the fair, which would save his life.
The theme of this book is never giving up. When the Uncle was going to kill him, Charlotte never gave up. She kept looking for ways to save him.
I used the Paces PAidiea study guide for Charlotte's Web as I studied this book. The study guide includes elements like vocabulary, homework items and journal entries. The homework items showed that even though this is a fictional book, it is full of facts on spiders. I especially liked drawing a comic strip of the spider's process of catching a fly. Using the Paces study guide for Charlotte's Web enhanced my understanding and made it more enjoyable. I recommend reading Charlotte's Web along with the Paces study guide.
 Good Story December 8, 2008
Steven R. McEvoy (Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having a dual form of dyslexia I did not learn to read until later in life. Thus I never read children's books while a child. Maybe that is why I read so many still today. I read this as part of a children's literature course in university.
It is an interesting book, about friendship, commitment, compassion, change and death. As such it deals with a lot of the big questions of life in ways a child can grasp.
For me the most moving part was when Wilber confessed to Charlotte that he did not like the thought of her as a blood sucker, towards the end of her life. Only true friends can be that open and honest.
The book is a powerful tale of true friendship and how our close friends can transform not only us but those around us.
(First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.)
 How to be a Best Friend November 8, 2004
Plume45 (Westchester, NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
E.B. White's tender classic remains a favorite for those of us who grew up in the fifties-for friendship and self-sacrifice are timeless virtues. Eight-year-old Fern Arable begs her father to spare the life of the runt of a litter of pigs, whom she lovingly names Wilbur and treats as a baby. Finally being sold to relatives on another farm, Wilbur has an easy time at first in the lower section of the Zuckerman's barn, but he gradually decides that his life is still empty, for he needs a special true friend. He fears he will die of heartbreak over his loneliness-not realizing that his destiny as a pig is to be fattened for a Christmas butchering.
This delightful tale chronicles the special friendship which is extended to him by a talented gray spider named Charlotte, who undertakes as her personal mission to save the life of the gentle young pig. Obviously she has to deceive the Zuckermans into believing that their pig is too remarkable to kill. Because she is such an excellent writer, she uses her web to advertise Wilbur's best features-which is considered a miracle. Meanwhile Fern sits quietly in the barn and listens to all the animals' conversation, though she does not participate. Naturally her mother is worried about this tendency to prefer animals to her peers. Revealing many human characteristics, the animals work together (or not), boys will be boys, until the final farewell. Wilbur is not the only one to shed tears at the spider's brief life cycle, but hope is renewed each spring. This is a wonderful read-aloud story, for children of all ages.
Charlotte's Web January 7, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book of "Charlotte's Web" was very inspiring to us. It taught us that life has hard times, but don't worry about all the bad things in life, focus and live your life to the fullest, and never let anything bring you down. The story of "Charlotte's Web", was about a little pig, that was born a runt. The girl, Fern, would not allow her father to kill the little pig, and she promised to care and love for the pig. She named him Wilbur. Then once the pig was old enough, her father said that he must be given away, so they decided to give it to her uncle, who lived just down the road. She visited him every day, and she also became friends with all of the other animals on the farm. On this farm there was a spider, named Charlotte. She became Wilbur's best friend. Later in the story, Fern's uncle decided to enter Wilbur in the state fair, and he won second place. At the fair, Charlotte made an egg sack, but then, after it was done, she passed away, and from then on Wilbur watched over her eggs, until one summer day, they hatched. There was about 300 hundred spiders, but all of them started to float away. Wilbur suddenly became sad again, but then he noticed there was 3 little spider, who were runts, who stayed with Wilbur at the farm, taking the place in life, of the never forgotten mother, Charlotte.
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