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I missed reading this book as a child, but am thrilled to have come back to it as an adult. White's language is beautiful, poetic, fluid, moving, and full of the sense of place and time. It is a rather sad story about friendship, one that got the five year old crying at the end, and angry that I had chosen such a sad story. But the very fact that he felt such emotion and power in the death of the spider, just proves all that much more the moving power of White's language. Because I am sure we/he
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I remember this book being read to our class in third grade. I went on to read it myself the next year and absolutely loved the movie (even if Paul Lynde kind of stole the show as Templeton the rat!).
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