兒童文學 Week 4

Animal fantasy

Charlotte's Web：Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. 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.

E. B. White：an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated from earlier surveys.

Awards and Honors

1960 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal

1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom=>(Harper Lee, the writer of How to Kill a Mocking Bird had won the medal, too.)

1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

1971 National Medal for Literature

1977 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Letters of E. B. White

1978 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for Letters[10]

1953 Newbery Medal honor for famous children's book "Charlotte's Web"

Are you mocking me？你在嘲笑我嗎！！

下蛋：lay eggs

• I'm blue blood = I'm a nobility

• There are many nouns use as verbs in Charlotte's Web
ex："I would like treasure the friendship."
        "I think it is only fair to tell you ..."

fair： Loveliness; beauty.


the apple of discord=> To the fairest.




the magic mirror=>Mirror,mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all

• Wilbur's common on Charlotte=>brillant、beautiful、loyal to the end




Winnie the pooh and the royal birthday

• one of the children literature that the main character doesn't have a misery childhood-- Anne of Green Gables

the dark side of children literature--Roald Dahl

                                                                          Roald Dahl：a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.

astro-：about stars
astrlolgy：What is your star sign？你是什麼星座？
asterisk：星記號