Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing takes priority over everything else. True, in his own day he was battling the late 19th century's cant about honor, duty, the family, patriotism and God. Into a stiflingly confining atmosphere, he brought the courageous spirit of free inquiry. Still, in any era, society is a web of which the family forms the central strands. Children must be safeguarded and reared, and a continuity of values preserved. This is what society is about, and it provides order and sustenance for the vast community of men and women who cannot fly, breathe, or even live...
...living American writer whose words have done most to prove that a children's book can be a work of art and a thing of enduring charm and usefulness. Stuart Little (1945) still reigns pretty much supreme in the small-furry-animal-in-spats market. Charlotte's Web (1952), which has just been released again on Pathways of Sound records with White himself reading aloud, is a masterpiece about love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will...
...Name the rat in Charlotte's Web and describe his most obnoxious habit...
...What was the second title Charlotte put in her web (after Some...
...WHITE has a rather strange mind. To a normal eight-year-old, he's just an exceptionally good author. But to someone older, who has never experienced the joy of Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little, he is, as a friend of mine said recently, "very weird." True, spiders don't usually weave slogans such as "Some Pig" into their webs to save pigs from being slaughtered; and human parents don't usually give birth to a son who looks exactly like a mouse. But none of that matters, because they're all very real, endearing characters with real problems...