Click2Flicks - Charlotte's Web - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>CHARLOTTE’S WEB</i>:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="104%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charlottes_web_ch2.htm">2. THE REAL ZUCKERMAN FARM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charlottes_web_ch3.htm">3. WHO IS CHARLOTTE?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charlottes_web_ch4.htm">4. MAKING SILK THREADS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charlottes_web_ch5.htm">5. SPINNING A WEB</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=102% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charlottes_web_ch6.htm">6. WEBS in the MORNING DEW</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="charlottes_web_ch7.htm">7. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></p></div> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman,arial,helvetica" size=3 color=000000><b><i>The web itself is a miracle.</b></i><br><br> Dr. Dorian<br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0064400557/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-8568879-7419117#reader-link" target="_blank"><b>Charlotte’s Web</b></a> </font><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000">As Andy White went into his <a target="_blank" href="images/north_brooklin.gif"><b>North Brooklin</b></a> barn to feed a pig, he was distracted by a gray spider spinning a web. Working hard, that barn spider produced strands of silk stronger than similarly-sized strands of steel. How could such a thing be?</p> <p>Not long before he watched the spider, one of White’s pigs had died. Distraught, he wrote an essay called “<a href="http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/ebwpig.htm" target="_blank"><b><i>Death of a Pig</i></b></a>.” His sadness is reflected in words like these:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>He had evidently become precious to me ...</i></b></font></center> <p align="justify">So ... what if it were possible for White to write a different ending for the pig who took sick and died? And ... what if a spider, whom he called Charlotte, became part of the story?</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="charlottes_web_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>