This will always be one of my lifetime favorite books. I've read it so many times I might be able to quote it. I love both versions of the movie as well. This is the way children's books ought to be written. I agree that it should have recieved the Newberry. (I feel that way about The Phantom Tollbooth, also.)

I read Charlotte's Web when I was younger and LOVED it.

I know I watched the cartoon movie over and over and over, especially for Tempelton's song.

Speaking of Templeton, I have always wanted a pet of my own just so I could name it Templeton.

Susanna wrote: "The thing I was shocked by is that it didn't win the Newberry the year it was released. "Secret of the Andes," by Ann Nolan Clark, did. Has anyone read that one? I certainly haven't...."

Yes, I've read Secret of the Andes. Charlotte's Web should DEFINITELY have won the award. I wasn't writing reviews back when I read the Newbery books (before GR), but here is a review that is similar to what I might have said. She puts Secret of the Andes at the bottom of her Newbery list. I have a few I would place below it, but it would definitely be on a list of my least favorite Newberys.

Like many of you, I have only seen the cartoon movie version. I am very hesitant to watch the newer version, because I'm almost positive I will be disappointed with it.

This book remains one of my all time favorites. I even had a stuff toy pig I named Wilbur.

I thought the new Movie was a good rendition of the book . Give it a chance

I love the confidence boost that this book gives... Feeling a little down? Let Charlotte cheer you up -- well, until the end, that is.

I LOVED LOVED LOVED this book! I'm really looking forward to re-reading it, as I haven't read it since grade school. I loved the cartoon too, Kandice, and I wouldn't want to see anything more current either. That cartoon/film was perfect just as it was. Loved them both.

The thing I was shocked by is that it didn't win the Newberry the year it was released. "Secret of the Andes," by Ann Nolan Clark, did. Has anyone read that one? I certainly haven't.

I got Charlotte's Web, however, for my eighth birthday, and have loved it ever since.

I read this when I was little and then lots of times since. I love the Hanna Barbera cartoon, but really didn't want to see the more recent movie. I didn't want to fiddle with the image of the characters I have in my mind. All of his books are so charming.

My children recently watched the movie and I cried at the end, I think this might be a good read aloud this summer,

We read it in school when I was in year six, when I was about ten. I think school made it boring, having to write out 'reading forms' and that they took bloody forever reading this little book. I was more into reading longer books by then and it was a little bit too young at the time, as far as I was concerned.

But I read it again a couple of years ago because the movie was coming out, which I never did get around to seeing - but it made me curious as to whether I'd like the book still.

I think I liked it better - it was very good and I cried at the end.

Yes and yes, Bird. :) It's one I've reread many times over the years. A few years ago my brother gave it to me as an audiobook, which is narrated by E.B. White himself. I love listening to the author read me his book.

I'm getting ready to re-read this for one of the challenge tasks. I adored it when I was a kid, and I hope I enjoy it just as much now. I felt a strong connection to Fern, as I am also an animal lover.

Did anyone else like this book when they were younger? Has anyone re-read this as an adult?