![]() ![]() ![]() (This kind of territory was already explored a bit by children’s novels like Ben and Me,1939, and The Little Grey Men, 1942, which incidentally includes the characters making use of a toy boat. The first half is Stuart living life as a very small person, with clever uses of ordinary objects, like a cigar box held up by clothespins for a bed, and including a long interlude of Stuart sailing a toy boat on the pond in Central Park. More important, what is this book even about? But we’ll let that pass we’ll pretend that White’s target audience in the 1940’s knew nothing about the facts of life. Little gave birth to a mouse - just doesn’t bear thinking about. Though I be beaten to death by enraged fifth-grade teachers, I have to say it: Stuart Little is a terrible book.įirst off, the premise - that Mrs. ![]()
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