The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael SIms (2011, HB)

As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats—White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy, " White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It's all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. With Charlotte's Web, which has gone on to sell more than 45 million copies, the man William Shawn called "the most companionable of writers" lodged his own character, the avuncular author, into the hearts of generations of readers.In The Story of Charlotte's Web, Michael Sims shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile-fantasy writer: how to find, not another

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Story of Charlotte's Web : Hardback : Walker & Company : 9780802777546 : 0802777546 : 07 Jun 2011 : Sims tells the engaging story of author E.B. White, and how White created the lifelike characters--helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, and greedy rats--in his classic tale, "Charlotte's Web."