Great American Read List discussion

This topic is for discussion of our October 2020 group read, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.

To all who voted: thank you!
To everyone: I hope you'll participate and read this selection for our book club.
For those who do: share your thoughts as you read, please!
Spoilers are allowed; add a considerate warning if your comment includes any so members have the option to skip.

A few notes on this book:
* It came in at #7 on the final Great American Read list.
* It has a 4.17 average Goodreads rating.
* It was a Newbery Honor book for 1953.
* There's an audiobook version read by White himself.
* Here's a link to a short New York Times review of the book, from 1952, written by Eudora Welty.

I just started listening to the audio version of this that's read by E.B. White. It's pretty good! It's only about 3.5 hours, so I should be done with it soon.

I just finished listening to this. My review is here, though there's not much to it.

This audio version was quite nice. And there's an afterword written by Peter F. Neumeyer and read by George Plimpton, which gives some interesting background on the story, and on White.

One more note:
Here's a fun article from NPR about Charlotte's Web: "Charlotte A. Cavatica: Bloodthirsty, Wise And True"
https://www.npr.org/2008/08/04/932634...

Lovely story. Thank you for the link to the NPR article.