Wilbur, the radiant pig, enjoys each and every day, in the barn where he take pleasure in visits from Fern, the little girl who saved his life, hanging with Charlotte A. Cavatica, a most resourceful spider, and his other barnyard friends; until an old sheep tells him what happens to pigs in December, which propels Charlotte to spin a grand plan to save him and makes him the most celebrated pig on the farm and perhaps in the county.
E.B. White said he wanted to write about the barn and entertain his children and himself...and this does it along with information about spiders, webs, weaving, and other farm animals.
Appeal factors: plot-driven, amusing, sweet, whimsical, conversational, fantasy
Newbery Honor Book
Decades Book: 1950
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