h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If it makes you feel any better, I wept like a little girl when we watched the movie at school. Very embarrassing.

And I hate spiders.

nothing girly about weeping...

but you didn't have a 6 year old patting you telling you it's just a story...

how embarassing

But...but....but..... Next to Watership down it's the SADDEST story I know - even though it has a happy ending for some...

Watership Down... I've never considered that one to be a children's book though, but yes I was through quite a lot of that one.

I thought that Charlotte's Web might provoke some of that philosophical, but much needed, parent/child talk about death and so on.

But no, my 6 year old isn't quite philosophical enough: she's telling all and sundry that I cried over a book.

sigh.

Ah...kiddies...I love em...but I couldn't eat a whole one

Wanna exchange recipies? I've a wondeful one for souvlaki!

ah, well.. veggie here.

But I heard they're pretty good on a B-B-Q

Cut 'em up small and stir fry 'em. Mmmm

Charlotte's web.. Ah, the memories. I pestered my Mum until I had all E B White's books. Actually, now as I come to think of it, that might just have been the beginning of my obsessive collecting of authors, singers, artists......

you, Psycho Chicken? A freak?

naaahhhhhh!

I do the same thing, once I've read one novel by an author, I have to get the rest. But I have to say that nothing else by EB White that I read matches Charlotte's Web. Not even close.

I always had a soft spot for The Trumpet of the Swan. My primary school librarian actually gave me the book when I left as I'd borrowed it so many times....