This is a great story about the runt of the litter who was saved by the farmer’s daughter. Fern raises Wilber to be a beautiful pig. When Fern’s dad decides to kill Wilber, Wilber meets Charlotte who helps to save him. Charlotte goes with Wilder to the fair and helps to save him by messages that she writes in her web.

I love this book and it was one of the first chapter books that my mother read to me.

1. Go to a farm.
2. Make a web to hang up in our classroom

This book is one of my all time favorites. No matter how many times I hear it, I still react the same way; teary eyes. I probably do not have to tell anyone what this book is about, but for the sake of my class I will. It is about a pig named Wilbur who ends up on a farm and raised by the daughter of the farmer. He becomes friends with the least likely critter of the farm, a spider. The spider teachers Wilbur a very valuable lesson.

I love this book and would read it to any child every chance I get. It has a very special place in my heart because I could really relate to it as a young girl.

In the class room I could talk about farm life. We could discuss what we know about each of the animals from the book. We could also talk about how it feels to be different and that differences are ok.

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 emotions that drive the story, rather than events. Having said that, the events that do happen are charming and full of importance, but they never interfere with what is at the heart of this story: the pure emotions of growth, whether that growth be of a pig, a spider, a little girl, or of a relationship that begins with a thread of trust and weaves into a beautiful web of affection. ( )

This book is about a young pig named Wilbur who lives on a farm with a family and makes many animal friends. His best friend is a spider named Charlotte. Charlotte saves Wilbur from being slaughtered by spinning a web that says funny things about Wilbur like "some pig." The owner of the farm decides to let Wilbur live and goes on to win many prizes at fairs. Charlotte dies at the end of the book but Wilbur raises her children for her.

Maggie and I read this together after seeing the animated film. I had read it several times years before, but it was nice to share it with my daughters. Eight years earlier, my older daugher Amanda shared it. ( )