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READ: The Story of Charlotte's Web
The second book for the Summer 2012 Community Reading
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Get the full details of E. B. White's scientific preparation for writing his children's classic.  How did E. B. White think up the story for Charlotte's Web? His words make it sound very simple: "I had been watching a big grey spider at her work and was impressed by how clever she was at weaving. Gradually I worked the spider into the story that you know, a story of friendship and salvation on a farm.”Michael Sims's The Story of Charlotte's Web gives the full details of White's scientific preparation for writing his classic. |
Michael Sims is a noted American nonfiction author, most recently of The Story of Charlotte's Web.  His other nonfiction books include In the Womb: Animals, Apollo’s Fire,
Adam's Navel, and Darwin's Orchestra.
Here's a lot more information about this book and Michael Sims.
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