Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White, First published in 1952, it tells the story of a spider named Charlotte and her friendship with a pig named Wilbur. It was illustrated by Garth Williams. Children's books and best read books Publishers Weekly lists the book as the best-selling children's paperback of all time Eight-year-old Fern Arable saves a pig from being slaughtered by her father. She names him Wilbur and tends to him as if she was his mother until he becomes too big and moves to Mr. Zuckerman’s barn. Charlotte, a spider, lives over the door near Wilbur’s pen. She befriends him and, by weaving words such as “Terrific“ and “Some Pig” in her web, tries to convince the Zuckerman family that Wilbur is so special that he cannot ever be killed for food.
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