Charlotte's Web

Pig-saving spider story

Charlotte's Web is a 1952 children's novel by E.B.

White about a pig named Wilbur saved from slaughter by a spider named Charlotte who weaves words into her web.

The book is a staple of American elementary education and often a child's first encounter with themes of mortality and friendship: I cried when Charlotte died.

Related
  • spiderWeb-spinning arachnid
  • spider's webSilk structure for prey
  • webInterwoven filament structure
  • pigDomesticated swine for meat
  • WilburFlight-pioneering brother

farm · barn · friendship · E.B. White · children's book · classic literature · bedtime story · Fern · runt · fair · radiant · humble · terrific · silk · spinning · egg sac · livestock · straw

Categories
Opposites
narrative tone and worldview

Charlotte's WebAnimal Farm

Satirical novella about rebellion

The Road · Lord of the Flies · Watership Down · A Clockwork Orange · Old Yeller

genre and presentation style

Charlotte's Webnature documentary

Film about wild environments

Planet Earth · wildlife documentary · wildlife footage · nature footage

literary character and complexity

Charlotte's WebNaked Lunch

Fragmentary Beat novel

American Psycho · Ulysses · Lolita · Finnegans Wake · A Clockwork Orange

Family

Charlotte, webbed, webbing

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G