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E. B. White Box Set

HarperCollins

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Charlotte's Web

pictures by Garth Williams

The Newbery Honor-winning story of a remarkable pig and the spiderwho changed his life.

Stuart Little

pictures by Garth Williams

A most unusual mouse sets out on the adventure of a lifetime.

The Trumpet of the Swan

new pictures by Caldecott Honor Artist Fred Marcellino

The joyous tale of Louis, a trumpeter swan in search of his voice.

Charlotte's Web. Stuart Little. The Trumpet of the Swan. What other books even approach these masterpieces of children's literature in humor, poignancy, and long-lasting influence? E.B. White's three award-winning classics have been brought together in a very welcome gift set for any young reader. The hardcover editions feature the original, oh-so-memorable pictures by Garth Williams for Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and wonderful, all-new illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Fred Marcellino for The Trumpet of the Swan. White's ingenious blend of fantasy and the natural world has a timeless appeal. After reading Charlotte's Web, what child has not cried out to save a spider from a cruel, crushing heel: "Wait! That could be Charlotte!" Read them once or a hundred times--the memories will linger forever. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter
In the Words of E. B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Cornell Univ Pr

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"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."-E. B. White on fatherhood

"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family."-on luck

"I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else." -on Maine

"The English language is always sticking a foot out to trip a man."-on language


The author of Charlotte's Web and One Man's Meat, coauthor of The Elements of Style, and columnist for The New Yorker for almost half a century, E. B. White (1899-1985) is an American literary icon. Over the course of his career, White inspired generations of writers and readers with his essays (both serious and humorous), children's literature, and stylistic guidance.

In the Words of E. B. White offers readers a delightful selection of quotations, selected and annotated by his granddaughter and literary executor, Martha White. The quotations cover a wide range of subjects and situations, from Automobiles, Babies, Bees, City Life, and College to Spiders, Taxes, Weather, Work, and Worry. E. B. White comments on writing for children, how to tell a major poet from a minor one, and what to do when one becomes hopelessly mired in a sentence. White was apt to address the subject of security by speaking first about a Ferris wheel at the local county fair, or the subject of democracy from the perspective of roofing his barn and looking out across the bay-he had a gift for bringing the abstract firmly into the realm of the everyday. Included here are gems from White's books and essay collections, as well as bits from both published and unpublished letters and journals.

This is a book for readers and writers, for those who know E. B. White from his "Notes and Comment" column in The New Yorker, have turned to The Elements of Style for help in crafting a polished sentence, or have loved a spider's assessment of Wilbur as "Some Pig." This distillation of the wit, style, and humanity of one of America's most distinguished essayists of the twentieth century will be a welcome addition to any reader's bookshelf.

Letters of E. B. White

Harper Perennial

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Letters of E. B. White touches on a wide variety of subjects, including the New Yorker editor who became the author's wife; their dachshund, Fred, with his "look of fake respectability"; and White's contemporaries, from Harold Ross and James Thurber to Groucho Marx and John Updike and, later, Senator Edmund S. Muskie and Garrison Keillor. Updated with newly released letters from 1976 to 1985, additional photographs, and a new foreword by John Updike, this unparalleled collection of letters from one of America's favorite essayists, poets, and storytellers now spans nearly a century, from 1908 to 1985.

White Heat

Mitchell Beazley

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Once in a blue moon a book is published that irrevocably changes the face of things. White Heat is one such book. Since it was originally produced in 1990, it has gone on to become one of the most enduring classic cook books of our time. With its unique blend of outspoken opinion, recipes, and dramatic photographs, White Heat captures the magic and spirit of Marco Pierre White in the heat of his kitchen.
Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition

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Here is New York

Little Bookroom

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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.
"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." So begins E.B. White's classic meditation on that noisiest, most public of American cities. Written during the summer of 1948, well after the author and editor had taken up permanent residence in Maine, Here Is New York is a fond glance back at the city of his youth, when White was one of the "young worshipful beginners" who give New York its passionate character. It's also a tribute to the sheer implausibility of the place--the tangled infrastructure, the teeming humanity, the dearth of air and light. Much has changed since White wrote this essay, yet in a city "both changeless and changing" there are things here that will doubtless ring equally true 100 years from now. To wit, "New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience--if they did they would live elsewhere."

Anyone who's ever cherished his essays--or even Charlotte's Web--knows that White is the most elegant of all possible stylists. There's not a sentence here that does not make itself felt right down to the reader's very bones. What would the author make of Giuliani's New York? Or of Times Square, Disney-style? It's hard to say for sure. But not even Planet Hollywood could ruin White's abiding sense of wonder: "The city is like poetry: it compresses all life ... into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines." This lovely new edition marks the 100th anniversary of E.B. White's birth--cause for celebration indeed. --Mary Park

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EB and me - Boston Globe
Boston Globe, United States - May 18, 2009
EB and meBy David Mehegan In 1938, EB White moved to Hancock County, Maine, to take up the farming life and write a magazine column called "One Man's Meat." In 1942 he published a collection under that title. The book is still in print, from Tilbury House,

CAES Third Graders Adapt EB White To Stage In Stuart Little - Message for the Week
Message for the Week, VT - May 19, 2009
CAES Third Graders Adapt EB White To Stage In Stuart Little - Message for the Week Message for the WeekCAES Third Graders Adapt EB White To Stage In Stuart LittleEach school was assigned a different EB White book to adapt to a stage performance. CAES was assigned Stuart Little and choose various chapters to act out. With help from Weston Playhouse director of Education/Dramaturg Lauryn Axelrod,

Wesleyan, ECSU And WCSU Students Graduate - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant, United States - May 25, 2009
Wesleyan, ECSU And WCSU Students Graduate - Hartford Courant Hartford CourantWesleyan, ECSU And WCSU Students GraduateJennifer J. Alexander, a Wesleyan alumna who received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree, read from EB White's classic, "Charlotte's Web." Alexander, who founded the city's nonprofit Kidcity Children's Museum, drew on the story's theme of

EB library director leaves for Albany post - East Brunswick Sentinel
East Brunswick Sentinel,  USA - May 22, 2009
EB library director leaves for Albany postTownship Business Administrator James White said the township is cutting municipal funding to the library this year. He said however that the reduction is not as sizable as was described in the library's press release, and noted that the library budget

Words and images coalesce - Boston Globe
Boston Globe, United States - May 23, 2009
Words and images coalesce - Boston Globe Boston GlobeWords and images coalesceMore recently, she has sculpted dresses, armatures of wire and steel knotted with text (all the tensile knotting in Dill's art puts her in a spidery lineage behind the fabled weaver Arachne and, dare I say, EB White's Charlotte).