Stuart Little (book)

Stuart Little is a book made in 1945 by E.B White, who made Charlotte’s Web and The Trumpet of the Swan and dozens of classics. It got a film adaption in 1999 and ended up getting a film franchise: Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, an animated television series that ran in 2003, and Stuart Little 3.

A young mouse named Stewart lives with his family of mice colony. One day, while looking for food, a cat eats up the mice while Stuart barely escapes. Lost in alone, the little mouse finds pleasure in an orphanage, but everyone octsrazies him for his small size.

The Littles, a human family, come looking for a brother for their son George. Stewart Little is adopted after spilling ink all over the orphanage owners work. At first, Stuart and George have trouble getting along, especially after Stewart accidentally wakes up the family cat by tugging on his tail, attempting to make friends, but after Stuart admit George’s boats, and other things that he had made, the two strike a friendship and win a boat contest.

While heading home from school, a bird named Margalo Falls into Staurt’s boat, and Stewart rushes has her back home. When he leans his head onto hers, and, noticing she still breathing, gets some tea and pours it into her, while warming her up near the fire. Margalo awakens the next morning and Stewart promises to not tell the Littles, with George promising as well.

Margalo decides to stay outside after the family cat locks her out by tricking her, and Stewart goes down the drain as part of an expedition. However, the rope snaps and he falls down the drain. Margalo swoops to save him, and the Littles fear the worst, Margalo comes out, with Stewart on her back, both wet and dirty from ending up, getting covered in sewage, but all right. Margolo reveals to the little during dinner that she was once part of a Bird family, but one day, while they were going to deliver to a falcon, the falcon arrived and ate her parents, whacking Margolo and attacking her, biting her wings. Eventually, he caused her to fall out of the sky and land on the boat. Sympathizing with her, the Littles allow her to stay, only because the falcon was close enough to the window, though Stewart manages to shut it in time.

Eventually, Margalo gets trust from everyone, including George. However, the family cat attacks them when they try to retrieve the Ruby that Margalo was going to bring, and the family cat chases them through the house, getting covered in paint. Stuart and Margallo are thrown in the washing machine as it fills up with water, Margallo sheds tears. Stewart, recognizing that her tears are the perfect solution. They need need to escape, gets Margalo to swim under and pull apart the washing machine. Margalo tries, but succeeds. The Littles return home from their outing to find more parts for George’s boat, and find Stewart and Margalo sinking to the bottom at the filled to the brim washing machine. In panic, Mr. little manages to open it and saves them in time. Margalo is revived using CPR from George by pressing her stomach, and Stewart awakens in bed, having gotten into a coma and given Resuication by Margalo. The family cat turns out to have scratched Stewart, while he was in his coma and sent outside as punishment, with George even saying, how could the cat do such a thing.

Eventually, and the family are happier than ever that is, and Margalo has to leave with the falcon. Stewart gives her a ring as a token of friendship and goodbye, and she flies off. Stewart told the Littles to let her be, but the sad mouth begins to cry, missing his friend dearly. Not even George showing him his new room of collected things can cheer him up, leading him to cry himself to sleep. He gets a resolution to find Margalo, being given a special car.

However, the car can’t find its way through a crowd of people, leading Stewart to seek shelter in a trashcan. he attempts to locate the place with the falcon is at, but at the dock, he misses the boat. He turns out that it is an abandoned lighthouse, and while exploring, breaks the lightbulb. The men threaten to feed him to the dog, but after Stuart, that he will start working hard, the men relents and let him go. Stuart works day and night for four months endlessly, where a new lightbulb is finally brought, and Stewart is let free, given with a big boat led by several mice, rats with long whiskers, and lizards.

Stuart tries to sail like a captain, but encounters a storm and the ship sinks. Most of them are drowned, but Stewart and the mice are able to keep a float using small, broken lifeboats. After they reaching an island, they struggled to find food. Stewart, out of desperation, plants a seed, and cries over it. Into a nut, sustaining Stewart and the rats for two days to keep them healthy. Stewart is finally rescued by a pelican.

Stewart sooner reaches a town, led by crocodiles, and one threatens to each steward. Stewart says to the crocodile that a match would be one: whoever crushes the cheese would win, if not, they will be sleeping with the fishes. Soon enough, Stewart wins, and the birds carry him, but the infuriated crocodile is carried out by the guards.

Stewart then is dropped off, this time having a walk on foot, after giving away his car to a poor child and his family, in trading for some matches. Stewart soon converses with a man, and after learning different French words, such as hasta la vista, Sayonara, and gracias, Stewart continues his search for Margalo, never forgetting his life with the Littles, keeping it told him a friendship in his pocket from George.

• "Stuart Little first edition dustjacket". NYPL Digital Gallery. New York Public Library.