E.B. White

Hello everyone. In this post I want to talk about a great author whose name is Elwyn Brooks White (E.B. White). I want to talk about this author because I knew him a few weeks ago and I liked a lot his books.

Elwyn Brooks White was bornt in Mount Vernont, New York, in 1899. He was a publicist and in 1925 he published his first article in "The New Yorker" magazine.

He wrote some important books such as "The elements of style" or "The Supremacy of Uruguay". But he became really famous because of three science fiction books for children.






The first book for children was "Stuart Little". I am sure that all of you know this book, maybe bacause you have read the book or maybe because you have seen the film. 
Stuart Litlle talks about a mouse that is adopted by a family of humans, the Little family. The parents of the family are very happy with their new son but, the oldest son, George, doesn´t know what can he does with his new brother. The cat of the family, Snowbell, is going to invent a plan to eliminate Stuart from the family.

I think that with this book children can learn a lot of things, for example, they can learn that it does not matter the aspect of a person and friendship is very important.



The second book for children that E.B. White wrote was "Charlotte´s Web". This book tells the story of a pig, called Wilbur that is in danger of being slaughtered by a farmer. The pig has a friend, a Spider whose name is Charlotte. The spider will help the pig writing messages in her web to persuade the farmer and Wilbur could live. 

With this book children can learn that it is important to help others and to be worried about the people around you.




The last book I want to show you is "The Trumpet of the Swan". This book tell the story of a swan that has a problem, he can´t talk. He is a very clever and handsome swan and he wants to impress a girl but she ignore them because of his problem. His father decides to give him a trompet and with this instrument he will do fascinating things.

This book is really good for children to see that they can do a lot of things if they put a lot of effort on it.




As you can see, all of these books talk about animals that, in my opinion, is a topic that engages a lot to children.
Finally, I want to highlight the importance of these books saying that all of them have been adapted to the cinema.