美国教育协会精选的100本最佳童书，以及BBC推荐的11本最伟大英文童书(22)

怀特写道：“一天，在我去喂猪的路上，我开始为猪感到难过，因为就像大多数猪那样，它注定会死去。”《夏洛特的网》在我们的评论家投票中排名居首。美国国家公共广播电台的莫林-科里根写道：“如果要我放一本书到太空舱，发送到遥远的星系，唤醒复杂的生命，我会把怀特的这本有关友谊、失去、放弃和生死的杰作送上去。”
“It was the first book in which I encountered mortality, legacy and love that transcended differences,” writes author and critic Rigoberto González. “Those were huge lessons from a book that, at its core, was about an adorable friendship between a spider and a pig.”
作家兼评论家里戈韦托-冈萨雷斯写道：“这是第一本让我遇到超越差异的生死、遗赠、和爱的书。故事的精髓是一只蜘蛛和一头猪之间可敬的友谊，而我们从这本书中却有这么多收获。”
“The complex emotions that emerge from the barnyard in EB White’s masterpiece never cloy, but feel true and important,” writes novelist and critic Meg Wolitzer. “Who can forget the opening: Fern in her damp sneakers wrestling to save the life of the runt Wilbur?” asks Karen R Long, who manages the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. “Not just about loyalty and friendship, this perfect book is an introduction to metaphor – the barnyard as life,” says Chicago Tribune literary editor-at-large Elizabeth Taylor.