Charlotte's Web (book)

Some childhood books make you laugh. Charlotte's Web makes you fall in love with a pig and then absolutely wrecks you over a spider. Wilbur just wants to live, and Charlotte quietly becomes the best friend anyone could ask for. E. B. White somehow made a barn full of animals feel like the most important place in the world. The story has humor, warmth, fear, and one of the hardest goodbyes many kids ever encountered in a book. Matilda might give you the bigger thrill, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe might offer a grander adventure, but Charlotte's Web hits somewhere deeper. Does any children's chapter book leave a bigger mark on your heart?