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About the Author and Artists

E. B. WHITE
was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from Cornell University in 1921. He was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 for both
CHARLOTTE
'
S WEB
, a Newbery Honor Book, and
STUART LITTLE
, and was commended for making “a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.” He is also the author of
THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN
. Mr. White, who also authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.

During his lifetime, many young readers asked Mr. White if his stories were true. In a letter written to one of his fans, he answered, “No, they are imaginary tales . . . but real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.”

GARTH WILLIAMS
illustrated almost 100 books for children, including the beloved
STUART LITTLE
, also by E. B. White,
BEDTIME FOR FRANCES
by Russell Hoban, and the
Little House
series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

ROSEMARY WELLS,
author and illustrator of almost eighty books, considers Garth Williams one of the true geniuses of twentieth-century book illustration and feels that had he had today's technology available, he would have chosen to do the illustrations for
CHARLOTTE
'
S WEB
in full color. Applying a very simple palette befitting the story's setting, Ms. Wells hopes her results would have pleased Garth Williams.

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Books by E. B. White

Charlotte's Web

Stuart Little

The Trumpet of the Swan

Essays of E. B. White

Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition

Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976

Credits

Cover art copyright © renewed 1980 by Estate of Garth Williams

Watercolors of Garth Williams artwork by Rosemary Wells

Watercolors copyright © 1999 by Estate of Garth Williams

Copyright

CHARLOTTE'S WEB FULL COLOR EDITION
. Copyright, 1952, by E. B. White. Text copyright © renewed 1980 by E. B. White. Illustrations copyright © renewed 1980 by Estate of Garth Williams. Colorizations copyright © 1999 by Estate of Garth Williams. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 52-9760

Full Color Edition ISBN 0-06-441093-5 (pbk.)

EPub Edition © January 2015 ISBN 9780062406781

13 SCP 30

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