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Once he tried to go skating in Central Park but a dog chased him, and he had to hide in a celery grove on top of a garbage can. The blind rolled up and Stuart was imprisoned

Once he tried to do gymnastics on the cord that hung from the window blind, to impress the household cat. In his pleasant, mouselike manner, shy but inquisitive, he was always getting into scrapes. He wore a gray hat and twirled a little cane. He weighed three and one-half ounces and was a little more than two inches tall, not counting the tail. At the age of 7, when he was fully grown, At birth he was so small that a three-cent stamp would have carried him anywhere in the United States. Named him, had a mouse's sharp nose, a mouse's whiskers and a mouse's tail. Little were normal persons in every way, their second son looked very much like a mouse. Hear Julie Andrews read from "Stuart Little".OctoStuart Little: Or New York Through the Eyes of a Mouse Stuart Little By E.B. This is perhaps too elusive an idea to put into a children’s book, but I put it in anyway" (Silvey, 677).Stuart Little: Or New York Through the Eyes of a Mouse And that quest, as White himself noted, ‘symbolizes the continuing journey that everybody takes—in search of what is perfect and unattainable. There, shepherded by the distinguished editor Ursula Nordstrom and felicitously illustrated by Garth Williams, the book was eventually published-generally to high acclaim The book sounds a resonant note as Stuart undertakes his quest for the beautiful bird, Margalo.

"The story had been brewing with White for years as a disconnected series of bedtime tales for his nieces and nephews by the time it came to Harper. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.įirst edition, first printing, with code “I-U” on copyright page of the author’s classic work.