Todays trivia: The friendship between the pig, Wilbur, and the spider, Charlotte, in CHARLOTTES WEB, has stood the test of time, being enjoyed by multiple generations over the last sixty years. E.B. White, a self-professed animal lover, said he wrote the children’s story to amuse himself. It all started in 1933 when White and his wife bought a farm, where he observed a spider spinning its web night after night above the pig trough, and then he spied her egg sack one morning. He cut the web down when he moved away to New York, watched the spiders hatch, and then finished writing the story. Apparently this experience touched the author profoundly. White himself recorded the audio book for “Charlotte’s Web,” and it took him seventeen takes to get through the part about Charlotte’s death, becoming so emotional each time he read it that his voice would break and he’d begin to cry.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:57:24 +0000
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