Stuart Little
Contributors: Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Edition: First Special Read-Aloud Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780060283346
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Classics; Mice; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Animals - General; Juvenile Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Fiction; Action & Adventure - General; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Animals - Mice  Hamsters  Guinea Pigs  etc.
First sentence: WHEN Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse.
Description: This is the first children's book by the distinguished author E.B. White. Stuart Little, the hero, is a mouse in the family of Frederick C. Little and is a debonair little character with a shy, engaging manner and a somewhat philosophical turn of mind. He is a great help around the house, and everybody except Snowbell the cat likes him a great deal. In spite of his small size, Stuart gets around in the world, riding a Fifth Avenue bus, racing (and winning in) a sailboat in Central Park, teaching school for a day, and so on. His size--just over two inches--does give him some trouble now and then, like the time he was rolled up in the window shade, or when he got dumped into a garbage scow. But on the whole his life is a happy one. His great adventure comes when, at the age of seven, he sets out in the world to seek his dearest friend, Margalo, a beautiful little bird who stayed for a few days in the Littles' Boston fern. It is on this search that we leave Stuart, going north in his little car, sure he is heading in the right direction.
 
Sutart Little, small in size only, has the adventurousness, the great purpose, and the indomitable spirit of a heroic figure, and his story, funny and tender and exciting by turns, will be read, reread, and loved by young and old.


(front flap)
Notes: US/CAN