Talk:Charlotte's Web

Vandalism

I removed the follwing vandalism:

"It should be noted that before being published, the book came under heavy fire for its anti-Semetic and anti-African American tones. In fact, Tempelton the rat claimed on page seventy nine: "The farmer is a filthy Jew who won't eat you anyway, Wilbur. It's true", and was also portrayed as a smooth talking black man in the body of a rat, who was often called "nigger" and treated unfairly by the other animals. The book was not allowed on the shelves in most bookstores and was kept in a brown paper bag in the ones that did carry it. Later, the book was edited due to poor sellings, but author I. B. Blight would claim until his death that the black man was constantly trying to keep him down." 66.102.74.46 08:23, 8 June 2005 (UTC)

Charlotte's Web 2

Shouldn't there be an article about Charlotte's Web 2, the sequel to the 1973 film? It was really tacky and ugly, but I think it still deserves an article.Ohyeh 18:06, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe there should, you could write one! However remember this is the article about the novel and as with the other two films, just mention should be made here to any other adaptations, Film, TV or theatre; and maybe comparison. Thanks :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree, it was really tacky. 74.249.96.19 (talk) 22:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

More character information needed

I haven't read the book in years, so I'm certainly not qualified to do it, but someone who's more familiar with the story should write up at least a one-sentence description for each character. At the moment it's just a list. DearPrudence 04:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I just finished reading this book for the first time since I was kid. The character list here must be from the movie because many of the characters listed here are definitely not in the book and the Zuckerman's farm hand, "Lurvy" and Fern's brother, Avery aren't listed at all. abcgirl 22:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Shouldn't this article mention the references from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events to Charlotte's Web? 189.30.4.18 (talk) 00:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

No, those references belong on the Series of Unfortunate Events page; not this one. Carl.bunderson (talk) 23:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Importance scale

I'm going through some WikiProject Children's literature articles and I noticed that this article was rated High-importance. However, I think that it should be Top-importance, as it's a classic in children's literature. Any comments? Mr. Absurd (talk) 04:34, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. The article needs a lot of work. I think it needs some indication beyond sales figures of its central place in American children's literature. I tried to add something with the Welty quote, but it deserves some commentary on its style and structure. I had some of what I'm talking about in there a long time ago, but it was just "something I read somewhere" and it's long since been removed as OR. But there must be sources that can be cited with some reasonable commentary. Anyone? Mark Foskey (talk) 03:03, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Foreign language titles

I've removed the section listing the translations of the title. I think it is sufficient to mention it was translated into many other languages, readers of this article aren't going to care what the title is in every language on earth, and this section was just adding unneeded clutter. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced focus on films

The rewritten character descriptions seem to suggest that this is an article about two films (for example, comparing only how Wilbur is portrayed in them) when it is more properly about a book. The original characters from the book should be the focus of this article, with variations in the movie adaptations saved for... the articles about those movies. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 02:20, 20 March 2009. (UTC)

Help or Kill Pig

I don't know this book, and - I kid you not - at first thought it was about a spider trying to kill a pig, because of the ambiguity of "about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte" --82.171.70.54 (talk) 22:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, still broken. Well, you know Wikipedia.. If it's terribly senseless information.. KEEP IT! If you add obvious facts such as humans requiring oxygen for survival.. NEEDS SEVERAL DOCUMENTED SOURCES OR YOU ARE VANDALISING!!!! 71.102.13.95 (talk) 05:36, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from , 9 October 2011

The links to the article about the cartoon movie are broken, because the movie was released in 1973, but all mentions of it say 1972.

166.137.12.28 (talk) 18:41, 9 October 2011 (UTC)