www.radioleft.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Via a friend of mine in Texas, where they know livestock, a snappily excellent video from chron.com (Houston Chronicle). Truly inspirational viewing--the best pig narrative, no joke, since Charlotte's Web (by E. B. White, the man who also authored a great short definition of democracy).
The Deliberate Agrarian (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
I received an e-mail from someone who has been reading this series of home-business essays and wondered if I would offer some advice on writing and self-publishing books. Okay, here goes.... I shall begin by deferring to E. B. White, who wrote the following to a class of fourth graders in 1968. They had written to him asking how to write a book: ”First, you have to want to write one very much. Then,...
Edinger House (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Today you are going to begin your very first literature unit in fourth grade, a study of the children’s books of E. B. White. You can read an overview of the assignment here. To begin I will be giving each of you a copy of Charlotte’s Web to read and, eventually, to annotate. “What [...]
The Laughorist (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
In today's Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley pens a lovely salute to The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White. Yardley's essay has this excerpt: This is the same William Strunk, Jr., who two pages earlier writes, "In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last," as in "red, white, and blue," this second comma being "often...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
I post this every year at the beginning of the school year, in honor of all the teachers out there. Many of my friends are teachers, my sister is a teacher ... and it is also in honor of anyone...
Philip Spires commonplace book (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Bernard Levin begins A Walk Up Fifth Avenue with three quotations from descriptions of New York City. These date from 1916, 1929 and 1949 and were written by Jane Kilmer, Theodore Dreiser and E. B. White respectively. Bernard Levin uses these vignettes to establish the reality, or perhaps unreality of a changing city, a superficially permanent edifice which really is in constant flux and is never more...
Edith Abeyta (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
In this live-action/CGI adaptation of the E.B. White classic, a young farm girl teams up with a spider named Charlotte to save a pig named Wilbur from the butcher's block. Starring Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey... Download This movies In High Quality 300x faster downloads then anywhere else online. Watch new movies in theater in streaming divx format. No virus or spy ware when using...
Reference at Newman Library (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
For an interesting article about one of the first children's librarians in America, who also tried to repress the publication of E. B. White's Stuart Little , see Jill Lepore, "Lives and Letters: The Lion and the Mouse, The Battle that Shaped Children's Literature" New Yorker , July 21, 2008, pp. 66--73. Anne Carroll Moore was the children's librarian in an experimental position at Pratt Institute...
Alone on a Limb (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
I heard this on NPR's In Character recently. ( Thanks for the tip, Tricia! ) It is a love poem written for his wife by E. B. White. White knew spiders. After all, he created one of the most famous arachnids of all, and one of my favorite characters in literature, Charlotte A. Cavatica. Natural History The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a plan of her devising, A thin premeditated rig To use...
Joe McQuaid (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
One of my colleagues is a big pop-culture fan. So I was a bit surprised when he sounded disappointed after seeing the new Batman movie. For the latest New Hampshire news and opinion visit www.unionleader.com.
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
"Choose a suitable design and stick to it." William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White Strunk and White were referring to the elementary principles of composition when they wrote this, but we think it applies
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Great story on NPR by Melissa Block a few days back, paying tribute to E.B. White's immortal Charlotte's Web . Follow the links to listen to White himself reading an excerpt.
Kevin Smokler (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"Prepare to be lucky." --E.B. White Read: In this awesome book.
Read Roger (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In reading Jill Lepore's New Yorker account of the battle between E. B. White and Anne Carroll Moore , I couldn't help finding my sympathies more with the old lady. Lepore seems to favor E. B. and Katharine White because they're more sophisticated, the cool kids. Moore's the earnest, humorless battle-axe, given to such pronouncements as "reading is an end in itself; its object is lifelong pleasure...
BloggingBaby.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Filed under: Preschoolers , Kids 5-7 , Kids 8-11 , Sleep After a bedtime routine of bath, brushing teeth, and book reading, my daughters still often resist settling in under getting under the covers and settling in for the night. So we started a new routine where, once they are tucked in and quiet, we turn off all the lights and I read them a few pages from a chapter book (with my booklight). Not...
