Yes, its another E.B. White children's story so, suck it up. I'm enjoying these. This one here, is Charlottes Web. I really enjoyed it and cried for like 3 minutes its so sad. It again brings up the silliness and depression of White. He is a very sad man. What I didn't realize is, how simple the wording of it is. There are no big words, mind you, when I speak and write I sound like a 6th grader. I have a terrible vocabulary. Wilbur, the pig, is the cutest thing in the world. The pictures by Garth Williams are phenominal. He did both Stuart Little, and Charlottes Web. They are pen drawing, consistant with most books in the 1950. You may not have read the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew mystries or Trixie Beldon Stories, well, let me tell you, I drilled those. Pretty much read every single one, two times over. The point is they had the same type of drawings in them. Especailly the originals not the strange 1990's versions.Aw snap! Connection: Garth Williams also was an ambulance driver in a World War. That make 3 people involved in modernism that were ambulance drivers in a World War E.E. Cummings, Garth Williams, and some one else... I don't think it influenced him as it did the writers though.... They seemed very depressed and he not so much, he always has a very unique and careful eye for shading and detail. Though, that could be a sign of someone with PTSD (post trumatic stress disorder). Often times they becomes neurotic perfectionists.
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