Gregory Martin at The American Scholar:
Charlotte’s Web, however, is a perfect book, a masterpiece about living and dying well. There should be some universal magic spell that prevents a child from seeing any Charlotte’s Web movie before reading the book. Evan is 22 now, a college senior studying psychology and philosophy, but he has still not read Charlotte’s Web. I read aloud to him so many books when he was little and later, well into his elementary years. I loved this, and he loved this. I loved reading to him as much as anything I have loved. That I did not read Charlotte’s Web aloud to Evan has to be considered one of the real failures, among many, of my parenting career.
How else to do right by one’s favorite authors than to pass them on, read them aloud, urge them on the ones we love? On anyone who will listen?
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