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Charlotte’s Web
Children's fiction
Charlotte’s Web
184 pages · First published 1952
Wilbur, a runt pig saved by a girl named Fern, is moved to a barn where he becomes lonely until a gray spider named Charlotte befriends him. When Charlotte learns that Wilbur is destined for slaughter, she begins spinning words into her web to convince the humans that he is extraordinary. Their plan draws attention to Wilbur while the changing seasons quietly remind readers that not every life can be saved from its natural ending. E. B. White’s classic children’s novel combines barnyard humor, friendship, mortality, and the power of words in a story whose tenderness never requires pretending that loss is avoidable.
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Threat of slaughtering a young pig for food; discussion of death; peaceful death of a major character and grief; mild animal danger; adult pipe smoking.
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