In 1935, White's wife Katharine showed these stories to Clarence Day, then a regular contributor to The New Yorker. White typed up a few stories about Stuart, which he told to his 18 nieces and nephews when they asked him to tell them a story. (p 145) As Sims (2011) wrote that Stuart "arrived in mind in a direct shipment from the subconscious." (p 145) He had the dream in the spring of 1926, while sleeping on a train on his way back to New York from a visit to the Shenandoah Valley. That's how the story of Stuart Little got started". In a letter White wrote in response to inquiries from readers, he described how he came to conceive of Stuart Little: "Many years ago, I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a rat. According to the first chapter, he looked very much like a mouse in every way. The book is a realistic yet fantastical story about a mouse-like human boy named Stuart Little. Stuart Little was illustrated by the subsequently award-winning artist Garth Williams, also his first work for children. It was White's first children's book, and it is now widely recognized as a classic in children's literature. Stuart Little is a 1945 American children's novel by E.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |