Charlotte's Web

"After I read “Charlotte’s Web,” I became so obsessed with pigs that my stepfather got me one for my ninth birthday. It was because of that pig that I became a vegetarian. That’s impact."

""Charlotte's Web" cemented my lifelong love of E. B. White."

"It is a treasure — in itself, but as Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message — and the message was more precious than the book."