Books with author E. White

The rather extraordinary arrival of Stuart in the Little house in NYC begins a funny and tender story of an heroic figure. In spite of his small size - just over two inches - Stuart gets around a good bit in the world. But he does have some trouble now and then, like the time he was rolled up in a window shade, or when he got dumped into a garbafe scow. His great adventure comes when, at the age of seven, he sets out to seek his dearest friend, Margalo, a beautiful little bird who stayed for a few says in the Little's Boston fern.

* 1953 Newbery Honor Book * 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award This is the story of a kindhearted girl named Fern who saves the life of a very small and very lucky pig named Wilbur. It is also the story of Charlotte A. Cavatica, the beautiful, resourceful gray spider who lives with Wilbur in the barn and who becomes his best friend. Surrounded by his barnyard pals and cheered by Fern's visits, Wilbur enjoys each new day -- until the old sheep tells him what farmers do to pigs at Christmas. Suddenly Wilbur is terribly afraid, but faithful Charlotte promises to spin a clever plan to save her humble friend. And with the help of Templeton the rat, she does just that. As moving and eloquent now as when it was first written more than fifty years ago, Charlotte's Web celebrates the sweetness of friendship, even when it is tinged by loss. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, award-winning author E. B. White (1899-1985) penned the children's classics Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. He also wrote numerous articles, essays and editorials for The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine and authored more than 17 books of poetry and prose. In 1978, White was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize citation for his body of work. E. B. White's Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan are also available on audio from Listening Library.

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr. wrote The Elements of Style in 1918 and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university. (Harcourt republished it in 52-page format in 1920.) Later, for publication, he and editor Edward A. Tenney revised it as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935). In 1957, at The New Yorker, the style guide reached the attention of E.B. White, who had studied writing under Strunk in 1919 but had since forgotten "the little book" that he described as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English". Weeks later, White wrote a feature story about Strunk's devotion to lucid English prose. Macmillan and Company subsequently commissioned White to revise The Elements for a 1959 edition (Strunk had died in 1946). White's expansion and modernization of Strunk and Tenney's 1935 revised edition yielded the writing style manual informally known as "Strunk & White", the first edition of which sold approximately two million copies in 1959. In the ensuing four decades, more than ten million copies of three editions have been sold. Mark Garvey relates the history of this writing manual in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style (2009). Maira Kalman, who provided the illustrations for The Elements of Style Illustrated (2005, see below), asked Nico Muhly to compose a cantata based on the book. It was performed at the New York Public Library in October 2005.

Everything changes in Kasey's life from ordinary to extraordinary the moment a crystal dragon egg is found. Magic and mystery become his life. He finds himself learning and training at the Great Master's Castle with the most powerful dragon in Onadida. Training and learning new power has become dangerous and unpredictable. Kasey's best friend, Alicia, has turned into a fire hazard with her new phoenix companion. Meanwhile, something sinister is just lurking in the shadows. It is up to Kasey and his dragon to save a this new world that he never knew existed.