Charlotte's Web is an award winning children novel by acclaimed American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.
The book was first published in 1952, with illustrations by Garth Williams.
The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live.
Charlotte's Web is considered a classic of children literature, enjoyable to adults. The description of the experience of swinging on a rope swing at the farm is an often cited example of rhythm in writing, as the pace of the sentences reflects the motion of the swing.
Publishers Weekly listed the book as the best selling children's paperback of all time as of 2000.
Charlotte's Web was made into an animated feature by Hanna Barbera Productions and Paramount Pictures in 1973.
Charlotte's Web was generally well reviewed when it was released. In The New York Times, Eudora Welty wrote, As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in the way it is done.
Aside from its paperback sales, Charlotte's Web is 78th on the all time bestselling hardback book list. According to publicity for the 2006 film adaptation, the book has sold more than 45 million copies and been translated into 23 languages.
It was a Newbery Honors book for 1953, losing to Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark for the medal. In 1970, White won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children literature, for Charlotte's Web, along with his first children book, Stuart Little, published in 1945.
Maria Nikolajeva calls the opening of the novel a failure, because, she states, the animals story cannot be satisfactorily viewed as an allegory to human life because of the novel begun and then abandoned human dimension, which of course presumes that White was writing the novel primarily as allegory.
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