And as the wonderful Charlotte does die, the sadness is tempered by the promise of more spiders next spring. The last word, when Wilbur is about to win a show prize and Charlotte is about to die from building her egg sac, is "Humble". At the news of Wilbur's forthcoming slaughter, campaigning Charlotte, to the astonishment of people for miles around, spins words in her web. Daily, Fern visits the Zuckermans to sit and muse with Wilbur and with the clever pen spider Charlotte, who befriends him when he is lonely and downcast. Young Fern Arable pleads for the life of runt piglet Wilbur and gets her father to sell him to a neighbor, Mr.
All the human members of the expedition are white.Īn inspiring story that while essentially factual is necessarily incomplete.Ī successful juvenile by the beloved New Yorker writer portrays a farm episode with an imaginative twist that makes a poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl.
Care has been taken to skirt the fact that all of the dogs died either of worms or at the hands of the men unable to feed them any longer. Backmatter contains a glossary, a timeline, and additional historical facts.
Told from the point of view of the dogs, this dangerous journey is one not only of adventure, but of sacrifice, loyalty, and strength. As their ship slowly sinks below the water, the men join the dogs and tow the lifeboats filled with provisions across the ice, hoping to find water. With provisions dwindling, they take to the ice, where the dogs must prove their worth towing the sleds. But neither man nor beast is prepared when the rising ice traps the wooden ship, forcing them to abandon it. Twenty-six expedition members and one stowaway crew the ship across treacherous water and around dangerous icebergs. The three dogs, along with 66 others, are chosen to board the Endurance to sail to the icy continent of Antarctica. Sally dreams of returning to her mate and birthing her puppies safely, but Bummer just hopes to survive. In 1914 sled dogs vie for a spot on the famous Antarctic voyage led by Ernest Shackleton.
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