Press: Charlotte's Web still speaks volumes about friendship, love, death - HC

"... the real star of the story is a clever gray spider named Charlotte.

'She's a can-do lady,' says Sandy Farmer, manager of the children's room at the Houston Public Library's central library. 'She doesn't say, "Yep, Wilbur's going to die." She figures out how to save him.

'All kids wish they had the power to change things, and Charlotte shows them a way to do that.'