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In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...
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As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive,...
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161 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
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"SOME PIG," Charlotte the spider's praise for Wilbur, is just one fondly remembered snippet from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. In this book, Melissa Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own artwork to tell his story, from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1985.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son, and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color iiustrations ; 26 cm
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When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten, an anxious Elwyn longed for the farm, where animal friends awaited him at the end of each day. Propelled by his fascination with the outside world, he began to jot down his reflections in a journal. Writing filled him with joy, and words became his world. Today, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web are beloved classics of children's...
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1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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With musicals, dance-a-thons, and more, there's always something to keep Angelina in the spotlight. See what happens when the mouselings plans to welcome the stars of Mousical the Musical are ruined. Or are they? Watch as Gracie puts the dance-a-thon in jeopardy when she becomes a very enthusiastic recycler. Get in on the fun when Viki finds her inner artist in dance but with lots of paint! Join Angelina and her friends as they take center stage and...
8) Jane Eyre
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2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
9) The book that changed my life: 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them
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xvii, 197 pages ; 20 cm
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