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[nonsensology]

This was supposed to just be a rough sketch, but then I started getting really invested in it.

I hadn't initially intended to include so many picture book characters, but the nostalgia was overwhelming. Does anyone remember the animated short films produced by Weston Woods? My local library used to have a bunch of them on the Scholastic VHS tapes from the late 90s. (I know some shorts were released on the Children's Circle VHS tapes back in the 80s (🎶 Come on along! Come on along! Join the caravan!), and some were packaged in Sammy's Story Shop in 2008.)

Characters:

Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Peter, from The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats

Brother Bear and Sister Bear, from The Berenstain Bears series, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Pooh and Piglet, from the Winnie-the-Pooh books, by A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard

Owen, from Owen, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes.

Mouse, from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond

Louis, from The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White

Mr. Toad, from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, based on the illustrations by E. H. Shepard

Mr. Tumnus, from The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis

Pippi and Mr. Nilsson, from the Pippi Longstocking books, by Astrid Lindgren

Willy Wonka, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake

Matilda, from Matilda, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake (with an homage to the Mara Wilson movie)

Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, from Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie

Merlin and Archimedes, from The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White, based on the illustrations by Dennis Nolan

Pinocchio, from Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, based on the illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti

Alice, White Rabbit, and Cheshire Cat, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel

Rupert Bear, from the Rupert stories, created by Mary Tourtel and continued by Alfred Bestall, John Harrold, Stuart Trotter, and others.

Arthur Read, from the Arthur series, written and illustrated by Marc Brown

Tin Woodman and Scarecrow, from the Land of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum, based on the illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill

The Cat in the Hat, from The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss

a frog on a flying lily pad, from Tuesday, written and illustrated by David Wiesner

Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White

[andallshallbewell]

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

In 1943, the editors of The New Yorker received a letter asking for a statement on "The Meaning of Democracy."

"It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure,"

- E. B. White wrote in response

[poem-today]

A poem by Sarah Freligh

Wondrous

I’m driving home from school when the radio talk turns to E.B. White, his birthday, and I exit the here and now of the freeway at rush hour,

travel back into the past, where my mother is reading to my sister and me the part about Charlotte laying her eggs and dying, and though this is the fifth time Charlotte

has died, my mother is crying again, and we’re laughing at her because we know nothing of loss and its sad math, how every subtraction is exponential, how each grief

multiplies the one preceding it, how the author tried seventeen times to record the words She died alone without crying, seventeen takes and a short walk during

which he called himself ridiculous, a grown man crying for a spider he’d spun out of the silk thread of invention — wondrous how those words would come back and make

him cry, and, yes, wondrous to hear my mother’s voice ten years after the day she died — the catch, the rasp, the gathering up before she could say to us, I’m OK.

Sarah Freligh

From Sad Math: Poems  (2015) Moon City Press

More poems and stories by Sarah Freligh are available on her website.

[red-ibis-red]

And so Wilbur came home to his beloved manure pile in the barn cellar. His was a strange homecoming. Around his neck he wore a medal of honor; in his mouth he held a sac of spider's eggs. There is no place like home, Wilbur thought, as he placed Charlotte's five hundred and fourteen unborn children carefully in a safe corner. The barn smelled good. His friends the sheep and the geese were glad to see him back.

—E.B.White, Charlotte’s Web

[its-all-down-hill]

[book-of-arts04]

Latest painting! What do you think?

[toribookworm22]

Meet The Writer

Thank you @writeintrees for the tag!

No pressure tagging: @minutiaewriter @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @vmccombs & my open tag!!!

Q&A and an alternate picture below:

Three Fun Facts About Me:

1. Before I decided to be a writer, I wanted to be a marine biologist.

2. I'm obsessed with mermaids.

3. The first (real) book I was read was Charlotte's Web. I was 4 and I sobbed.

Favorite Season: Fall

Residing Continent: North America

My Spent Time: Mostly school and writing.

Published?: Yes! Shut Down, Book 1 of The Animatronic Saga is available on Amazon.

Verted: Introvert (though an extroverted one)

Favorite Meal: Chicken Alfredo

[bunnziebobcat]

Fan Art Friday - Stuart Little

This week's #FanArtFriday features E.B. White's Stuart Little, and he seems to be riding a hoverboard from Back to the Future 2, all to celebrate his voice artist, Michael J. Fox's birthday today. Oh, and let's make Michael's birthday special by considering donating to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Thank you.

[villadiodati1816]

Where's the post that said George Orwell and E.B.White were visiting very different farms

[shelbycarpenter]

[linusjf]

E B White: We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny

“We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don’t like a Communist.” —E.B. White.

[teenageread]

Review: Charlotte's Web

Synopsis:

Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.

Plot:

As the runt of the litter, Wilbur was set to die, until Fern decided to save him. Raising the little spring piglet by herself, Fern saw something special in Wilbur despite his tiny size. When he got too big, Fern’s parents suggested that Wilbur was to be raised at Uncle Zuckerman’s farm, which was better equipped for dealing with pigs. In the barn, Wilbur tried to become friends with the geese, the sheep, and even the rat, but no one was willing to play with him - until Charlotte. Charlotte was the spider who made her web at the top of the doorway and befriended the kind little piggy. When the pair find out that Zuckerman plans to kill Wilbur during the winter, Charlotte comes up with a plan to save Wilbur’s life, by making him the radiant pig everyone in the barn knows him to be.  

Thoughts:

A classical children's tale and one that I recommended everyone read to get the fullness of this wonderful story. Easy to read as it's meant for children, this short novel takes you through the third person point of view of Wilbur as he goes from being the runt of the litter to the star of the show. As the novel was written in the 50s it does have an old-style feel to it, with the story setting, and calling all the adults by Mr. or Mrs. However, unlike other 50-style novels, there is none of the racial or homophobic remarks as other stories do. This novel is designed for children, thus a very simple story with the theme being death. The novel started with Wilbur being sentenced to death but was saved by Fern, who most children can relate to in the sense they did not want to see the small pig die simply because he was the smallest. Then the middle theme of the novel was that Wilbur was to die during the holidays and it was up to Charlotte to come up with a plan to save Wilbur. As death is a heavy topic, this can make the novel hard for children to enjoy, but also what makes it a classic as it deals with this heavy topic in the best way you can. White made Willbur a loveable character, one for you to root for throughout the novel. Charlotte, while using big words for the age of this novel, was sophisticated and kind, and gave children a good idea of what it means to be a loving friend. Equally as huge as the death theme is the friendship theme and loyalty as we see Charlotte work effortlessly to save Wilbur, just because he is her friend. Where White could have gone more in-depth and made deeper emotional connections for this friendship, White kept it at a child’s level of Charlotte just stating that she is Wilbur’s friend and doing what she can to save him. Truly a simple plot, and one that deserves its rewards in literature and why, even as an adult, I feel this is an important story to re-read time and time again.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon

[josephconrads]

Title: The Trumpet of the Swan

Author: E.B. White

Rating: 3 out of 5

Review: I had zero knowledge coming into this of what it was about other than a trumpet playing swan based on the title. Was pleasantly surprised by how delightful it was. Louis and his adventures were quite entertaining and I thoroughly enjoyed how each small separate section of his adventures was interwoven into the bigger picture, something that lacked in another novel by White. Thoroughly entertaining and a good time all around although I will say that it did end up dragging out longer than it needed to which is the only reason for the lower rating.

[psykopaths]

[feuilletourne-sir20]

Tournefeuille, répétition

Tournefeuille, repetition

by sir20 for feuilletourne-sir20