Trophy Newbery: Charlotte's Web (Hardcover)

from sirfurboy

I read this book when I was 7 or 8, and was loving it - until the extremely sad penultimate chapter, which reduced me to tears and I was unable to complete the book. My mother had to take me through the last chapter, but to me it did not make up for the sadness! But that does not stop me rating i...

from robfwalter

I don't often read children's literature. The last children's book I read would have been The Secret Garden, which I read before I got on Goodreads (in 2011, according to my "read" list). However, every now and again it's nice to dip into something completely different. I say all this just to giv...

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: Read aloud to ds. I'll keep this one short. There must be thousand's of reviews already of this modern classic. The edition that I have is the hardcover reprint with the gently colourized original illustration by Rosemary Wells, a beautiful book and a keeper for my personal li...

from ChiaraBeth

A masterpiece of children's literature. Few novels written for children stand the test of time like this one does, and I think it's largely thanks to White's simple, pure, and honest writing style. It is a story of friendship, not of a particular moment in time, and it is that friendship and its ...

from ChiaraBeth

A masterpiece of children's literature. Few novels written for children stand the test of time like this one does, and I think it's largely thanks to White's simple, pure, and honest writing style. It is a story of friendship, not of a particular moment in time, and it is that friendship and its ...