E. B. White lost a pig on his North Brooklin, Maine farm. Distraught, he wrote an essay about it called "Death of a Pig." A year later, working on a fictional story involving a pig called Wilbur, White used a barn spider - named Charlotte A. Cavatica - to give his pig a different ending.
Charlotte's Web, winner of a Newbery Honor Medal in 1953, explores the concepts of friendship, loyalty and death through the lives of a young girl - Fern Arable - and her barnyard friends. Help for a doomed pig comes from the most unlikely places: the web of a spider and the actions of Templeton, a rat.
Learn the story behind the movie and meet the author, Elwyn Brooks White. Examine primary sources about the novel, including an early manuscript. See pictures of the North Brooklin boathouse where White wrote his book and view a video of the beautiful scenery surrounding his property (on which the Zuckerman farm is based). Explore how a spider like Charlotte spins a web - including realtime video clips - and learn how spiderlings are able to balloon on self-produced strands of gossamer silk. Read a firsthand account - by Charles Darwin - who saw a mass of ballooning spiders land on the Beagle while it was sixty miles offshore. Brought to you by Click2Flicks, a channel of AwesomeStories.com.
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