Category: Books

  • Stuart Little’s Quiet Champion

    Stuart Little’s Quiet Champion

    A great American essayist and literary stylist wrote a book for children, and a deluge of scornful criticisms followed. Was the book offensive? Would it cause children to rebel against parental authority? Apparently not, but E.B. White’s first work of fiction for children, Stuart Little, was greeted with more acrimony than was the fictional mouse-child…