READ: The Story of Charlotte's Web
The second book for the Summer 2012 Community Reading
The Book |
The Author |
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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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