@article{436770,
      author = {Sims, Michael,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436770},
      title = {The story of Charlotte's web : E.B. White's eccentric life  in nature and the birth of an American classic /},
      publisher = {Walker & Co.,},
      abstract = {As he was composing what was to become his most enduring  book, E. B. White was obeying the maxim: "Write what you  know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy  rats--White knew all of these characters in the barns and  stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy  his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself,  "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It  is all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have  felt a kinship with E. B. White. In this book the author  shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once  called "the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy  writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit  hole" by mining the raw ore of his childhood friendship  with animals, translating his own passions and  contradictions, delights and fears, into an all time  classic.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {436770},
      pages = {viii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}