E. B. White

“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a ferris wheel,” the incomparable E. B. White once wrote. This was the man who gave us the little girl named Fern, Wilbur the pig, Templeton the rat, and Charlotte, a spider who happens to be one of the most wondrous creations in all of fiction. No home should be without a copy of White’s Charlotte’s Web. There’s a new movie adaptation coming out, but skip it and read this beautiful new edition that’s tied to the movie release. Or buy it for someone you love. Read it and weep: “The Fair Grounds were soon deserted. The sheds and buildings were empty and forlorn. The infield was littered with bottles and trash. Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died.”